Adverse events are not necessarily caused by medical error:
One problem physicians face, Dr. Gallagher said, is that patients may fail to distinguish errors from unavoidable medical problems.
“I think that often patients assume that any adverse event is due to error,” he said. “That’s not so. A vast majority of such events are not errors and not preventable.”
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