Medical Errors Are Misunderstood — Bad Outcomes Aren't Always Mistakes

A commentary argues the public conflates bad outcomes with medical errors, expecting medicine to be deterministic. Poor systemic management of errors compounds the problem. No new data — an opinion piece worth reading for context on patient safety discourse.

• Opinion/blog post, not original research — no study population, comparator, or outcome data presented.
• Central argument: a bad outcome is not automatically evidence of error; probabilistic medicine is poorly understood by the public and media.
• Limitation: single-author perspective with no empirical evidence cited in the snippet; claims cannot be independently verified from the source provided.

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