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What is a medical slip?
(01/15/2003)

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