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This is a preliminary report of an small interdisciplinary study focusing on the application of self-directed reflective thinking for individuals interested in exploring how to think about mistakes and errors.
What can an individual, small group, a patient or a care giver, do to reduce the chance of serious medical error often called an \textit{adverse event?} The focus of this report to facilitate all efforts to deal with medical mistakes and encourage exemplary practices. We concentrated on an individual and small group level because personally, and in our circles of friends and acquaintances many errors and near misses occurred. Emotional immediacy was a strong motivator for us to pursue antecedents and promising remedies. We wrote case reports. We reviewed and searched medical, organizational, anthropological, psychiatric and psychoanalytic, and philosophy of science
literature\marginnote{This literature.\marginnote{This article is written in Tufte Handout style. Unnumbered notes in the margin are \textit{margin notes}, those with numbers are \textit{sidenotes} and are repeated in the References. URL's in either place can be clicked in Adobe Reader, free from Adobe Systems for all platforms. You will be taken to the original reference source, plus usually an abstract and often a free full text copy. We sought ideas for developing relatively simple, grounded, practice level solutions. Elderly readers or those with visual handicaps can also click the + icon at the top in the Adobe Reader window to enlarge text while reading on the computer screen.}
These were applied in the trenches of medical care. We developed three \emph{open source} tools to support reflective thinking, personal resilience, and the advancement of knowledge. The tools increased personal and organizational awareness. We welcome comment and suggestions for further development. We seek more examples of personal and small team experience. Our goal is to improve simple, easily applied methods for evaluating and comprehending how to best reduce errors for a health care team or an individual in practice.