This has happened, to some extent: At the Instituto Oncologico Nacional in Panama, some doctors discovered that they could fudge things to circumvent some limi

This has happened, to some extent: At the Instituto Oncologico Nacional in Panama, some doctors discovered that they could fudge things to circumvent some limitations in the software that calculated shielding block geometry for radiotherapy patients. In essence, the system could only handle 4 blocks, but it was possible (and sometimes correct) to add more than one block as a single shape. If this happened in the wrong order, however, it would screw up. The staff in charge were brought up on civil (and possibly criminal) negligence charges, from what I recall. Edit: Yep, according to http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S1020-49892006000800014&script=sci_arttext http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S1020-498920060008000... [search for "Legal actions" heading] "On 18 November 2004 it was announced that one of the physicists was acquitted, but the other two were found guilty, sentenced to four years in prison, and barred from practicing their profession for seven years (45). They have initiated an appeal process, but they are very worried, given the precedent established by the Costa Rica case. The [...] Costa Rican physicist [...] was accused of negligence in 30 homicides and 59 radiation injuries. He was also accused of falsifying documents and of using false documents. On 30 July 2001 he was absolved of the latter two charges, but he was found guilty of 14 homicides and 50 radiation injuries. He was sentenced to six years in prison and barred from practicing his profession for five years." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_Oncologico_Nacional#Accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_Oncologico_Nacional#...