Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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Is All Light?
Vernon Kidd has the dubious honor of being the first person documented to have died due to therapeutic radiation therapy. He complained feeling fire on the side of his face and the medical physicist attended the fire play this. Describing the sound like that of frying eggs. They had an autopsy performed, demonstrating acute high dose radiation injury to the temporal lobe.
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