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		antiform on July 1, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flaws in medical coding can kill Another reason why every critical-system programmer should learn and relearn the lessons of Therac-25.[http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html]

PStamatiou on July 1, 2008 [–]

agreed. I read about that as a case study for my CS "computing, society and professionalism" class.

for the therac one of their main problems was relying on software 100% and not having hardware failsafes as well.

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