Reply to post: Re: Medical mistakes

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Bartholomew

Re: Medical mistakes

To be fair poor software design has killed a few (lookup Therac-25 - a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in 1982). So many lessons learned because it got so much wrong. The software was proven safe on the old machines (with hardware safety interlocks that hid all the software bugs), so it must safe in the newer cheaper model (without hardware safety interlocks).

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