No matter how important our jobs are and how diligently we try to do them, we're going to mess up at some point.
And for the most part, that day when we make our first noticeable mistake on the job tends to be a much bigger deal for us than our more experienced coworkers who just kind of roll their eyes and say, "oh, this again" when we give our panicked explanations.
But while every job has its common occupational hazards that seem worse than they are, it's just as possible to make a small error that can have surprisingly wide-ranging implications.
And as one man in the U.K. discovered, that's especially true when we're dealing with medical matters.