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Neurosurgery is an esoteric field, which demands exemplary judgment, logical decision-making, and meticulous execution. “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability”—William Osler. Given that Medicine is an uncertain field, yet the room for error is minuscule, rather non-permissible, and often non-forgivable; but human as we are, there is proneness to errors of omission and commission, and the effects of such errors can be devastating for the patient and his/her family/caregivers, and even for the surgeon’s own reputation, and for the institution where the patient is being treated.
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Turel, K. (2022). Learning from Errors/Mistakes. In: Ammar, A. (eds) Learning and Career Development in Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02078-0_18
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