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Flaws in medical coding can kill
- ROFISH 18y agoI interned for a (rather large) medical software company. There was multiple rounds of red tape just to get a VB-based preference selector updated. (In this specific case it's probably not a bad thing, just not my style.)
- antiform 18y agoAnother 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 http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html]
- PStamatiou 18y agoagreed. 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.