At 21:35 09-01-2003 -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote:

I have not met _any_ doctor or nurse who would approve
of a 'Logan's Run'-style cut-off to "decrease the
surplus population."
A hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, found a way to deal with "surplus population":

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/01/08/offbeat.computer.error.ap/index.html

Hospital computer makes fatal error

'According to this, I'm dead'

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (AP) -- Believe Cathy Uhl, not the computer, when she insists she's alive.

A computer error at Saint Mary's Mercy Medical Center mistakenly identified her and thousands of other patients as deceased.


Jeroen "Honey, I'm dead!" van Baardwijk


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