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Episode 121: Therac-25

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The Worst Case Scenario Ever Happened in Medicine

Malfunction 54 malfunction 54 is very helpful. It tells the operator that the patient has either received too little or too much radiation. In the case of the 3525 device here, this was used successfully treat other patients later that day. But taken out of service the following day for testing,. They flew a ACL engineer down from Canada to try and reproduce the malfunction 54 error. And so, you know, we're looking with the machine within the parameters they've been told to operate the machine.

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