
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The third 25. It's like it comes back from the dead. Yeah, it kills someone else. This is so on this case, an unnamed patient attends the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital for treatment of a carcinoma. Again, no further information about the cancer itself. The operator in deposition stated there a message may briefly have been displayed. However, the treatment was simply paused. And as the operators are used to doing this point, they pressed the peaky to resume treatment. The machine paused again. and the so that we have the upgraded error messages here. I get a beef a beam, beef paws, you know, the literalist Canadian literalists all the way through.
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