-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Matt Mc_Carthy <=-

 RJT> Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 
 MMC> Those people have a tighter lock on that stuff than the FAA has
 MMC> over airplane parts and mechanics.

 RJT> Which is probably a good thing!

 RJT> I can still remember hearing about one particular xray machine that
 RJT> was mis-programmed,  though the details are a bit hazy.  The end
 RJT> result though was that it gave *massive* doses of radiation to
 RJT> patients,  way more than what it was supposed to.  And the problem was
 RJT> some sort of a software error... 

Thera. It's in the RISKS-List archives somewhere.


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