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‘‘Screw-ups’’ 101 People fear the unknown: I now know what it’s like to have a pounding heart and a dry mouth, waiting those three, four, or five days until I get a blood test back. As the day approached, I would get more and more frightened and apprehensive. And I’m a doctor, a scientist! But I’m also just a scared patient. Here, Charles identified differences between his dual conflicting roles: scientists are not supposed to be afraid. Yet he simultaneously occupied roles as biomedically