Shawn Merdinger([email protected])@Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:15:59PM -0500: > fyi, > > Via RISKS: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.93.html > > "A New York City hospital treating him for tongue cancer had failed to > detect a computer error that directed a linear accelerator to blast > his brain stem and neck with errant beams of radiation. Not once, but > on three consecutive days. Mr. Jerome-Parks died several weeks later > in 2007. He was 43." > > NYT Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html > NYT Slideshow: > http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/24/us/20100124RADIATION1_index.html
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