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Medical slips are not as serious as medical accidents. Doctors and medical
workers are not considered legally at fault for slips. Medical slips are
subdivided into two levels: serious and general. To be considered a slip, the
error by doctors or medical workers must not have caused serious irreparable
damage to the patient's body or mind.
Serious medical slips include serious events, such as bleeding in main blood
vessels during an operation that was successfully handled by doctors and did not
cause death, dysfunction or paralysis.
General medical slips are less serious, such as errors in prescription that
were detected by doctors or medical workers (not by patients) in time for
preventative/corrective measures to be taken
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