Oxymoron comes to mind,but that doesn't really do the phrase "medical misadventure" justice. Kind of makes it sound like you were having fun with it at some point and then oops! The definition of medical misadventure is:personal injury caused by a medical error or mishap...no need to mention that the "injury" may involve death.
If I didn't know what the term meant I would think someone was talking about being in the hospital and going into the bathroom in your open in the back hospital gown and when you were finished you accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in the gift shop. Or maybe another scenario would be going to the cafeteria and ordering scrambled eggs without realizing that the carton they came in would taste better than the eggs themselves. I don't know, maybe the whole thing should just be filed under "to err is human" and left at that,but I would still like to meet the person that coined the phrase "medical misadventure"and ask them exactly what they were thinking when they came up with the phrase.
If I didn't know what the term meant I would think someone was talking about being in the hospital and going into the bathroom in your open in the back hospital gown and when you were finished you accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in the gift shop. Or maybe another scenario would be going to the cafeteria and ordering scrambled eggs without realizing that the carton they came in would taste better than the eggs themselves. I don't know, maybe the whole thing should just be filed under "to err is human" and left at that,but I would still like to meet the person that coined the phrase "medical misadventure"and ask them exactly what they were thinking when they came up with the phrase.
medical misadventure was possibly created by some insurance company and/or lawyers trying to avoid a lawsuit - maybe? It seems almost like a fun thing instead of life altering results from medical treatments~
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