Theriac revisited
Oct. 22nd, 2009 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xelaSo Cedars-Sinai altered one of the programs on their CT scanner and introduced a bug resulting in over 200 patients receiving radiation overdoses, reminding many of us (geeks with a healthy interest in how technology fails, that is), at least superficially, of Theriac-25.
Now, I only know about CT scanners from the laying-there-with-the-godawful-taste-of-barium-solution-in-my-mouth perspective, but how fucking hard can it be, say once a year (and immediately after reprograming or installing patches), to run a CT scanner through each of its programs with a dosimeter inside it instead of a patient? Why isn't that standard procedure?
Now, I only know about CT scanners from the laying-there-with-the-godawful-taste-of-barium-solution-in-my-mouth perspective, but how fucking hard can it be, say once a year (and immediately after reprograming or installing patches), to run a CT scanner through each of its programs with a dosimeter inside it instead of a patient? Why isn't that standard procedure?
