
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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Radiation Injuries, You Feel Kind of Weird
The patient who received an exospotent this scenario unfortunately to come to her cancer a few months later. The estimated dose here was in the region of 13,000 to 17,000 rads. So ACL carried out an investigation incident and failed to reproduce the circumstances. They did, however, identify a mechanical issues relating to the plungiologic mechanism and the micro switch array. Yeah, you got the effect of like sort of like when you open a fridge door with like your hips, but it's the door to like Chernobyl.
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