Abstract
Medical error is commonplace. The uncertainties of any endeavor involving human beings necessarily entails not only occasional mistakes but adverse outcomes as well, even in the absence of error. The range of mishaps and complications is vast, from trivial oversight of incidental abnormalities of no consequence to gross and lasting harm to patients and their dependents. The severity of the outcome may have little to do with how egregious the oversight was: small mistakes can have catastrophic consequences, just as shocking errors may prove immaterial.
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