I check every prescription three times and still see the child I nearly harmed

Dear Delyara, I am a pharmacist. Six months ago, I almost dispensed the wrong concentration of medication for a child. A second check caught it before it left the pharmacy. No harm occurred. The investigation found workload and labeling contributed, and I completed retraining. Since returning, I check pediatric prescriptions three, sometimes four times. My queue grows. Customers become angry. Colleagues tell me I am slowing the team down. I know overchecking can create new risks by exhausting attention. I know that professionally. Emotionally, every bottle with a child’s name becomes the bottle I nearly handed over. Yesterday, a father sighed loudly while waiting and said, “How difficult can it be?” I wanted to show him the incident report. Instead, I apologized and checked again. I used to trust my competence. Now every correct prescription feels like one I simply have not discovered the error in yet.