In message <FCA549BE3ECF9D4CB8CB8576837EA489026DE9@ZEUS.cetest.local>, dated Sat, 10 May 2008, Gert Gremmen <administra...@ce-test.info> writes:
>The single fact that even one patient complained About a burning pain >during radiation exposure should, >no MUST have been enough to ring all available >alarm bells. Remember that this complaint would have been made, at least initially, to medical staff. Fear of litigation is a powerful suppressant of alarm bells. The operating staff would much prefer the pain to be psychosomatic rather than that someone made a setting error (which has happened several times in UK with radiation treatment machines). The possibility that the machine itself was at fault would be way down the list. If the complaint moves to higher levels in the medical hierarchy, the fear of litigation becomes stronger. It's certainly true that SOME people were working on software reliability and dependability in the 1980s, but it was early days. And, yes, many errors were astonishingly elementary. I made many of them when learning a bit of BBC BASIC at that time. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Murphy's Law has now been officially re-named The Certainty Principle John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
