Re: Medical Usability

[Ignacio Valdes]

Yet is the operative word. I'm going to a Corvair gathering in 
Kerrville, Texas this weekend so wish me luck! No worries about being 
Unsafe at Any Speed b/c I have a 1964 model. Prior to 1964, Corvair's 
had a tendency for *some* instability with *hard* cornering and under 
inflated rear tires. The addition of a $10 strut fixed the problem if 
there was one. Even so, the US government investigated Corvair twice 
and found it to be as safe as any car of the era. It is actually a 
very interesting vehicle, among other things: rear-mounted air-cooled 
engine which has great gas mileage and was 20 years ahead of its time. 
The engine is still used by hobbyists for experimental aircraft.

FOSS content, um, let's see: I (and my wife and my children and...) 
will wear recently arrived to my house Linux Medical News shirts 
http://www.cafepress.com/lmnstore to the convention!

-- IV
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:09:55 -0400
 Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good point....Ignacio Valdes can provide peer reviewed evidence for 
this....he restores them....and hasn't crashed one yet as far as I 
know....

Sherman, Paul (CEOSH) wrote:
The only problem with the "Unsafe.." analogy...
It was fundamentally inaccurate; the Corvair was 
actually pretty safe.

 

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Joseph
Dal Molin
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:36 PM
To: openhealth-list@minoru-development.com
Subject: Re: Medical Usability

Reminds me of "Unsafe at Any Speed".... perhaps what the world needs 
is the
kind of book Ralph Nader wrote.  I think Horst Herb came up with the 
right
title for it in a presentation he recently gave: "Intellectual 
Property
Kills"

Joseph
Denny Adelman wrote:
Although this link does not concern FOSS directly, it is of certain 
interest to all of us. With a title like "How to Kill Patients 
Through Bad Design", how can it not be?

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050411.html
(Please excuse the crosspost.)
Denny Adelman
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