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The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

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449 points lemper | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 06:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
1. onewheeltom ◴[27 Aug 25 22:04 UTC] No.45045901[source]▶
The manufacturer of the Therac-25, AECL, did not share customer incident reports with other customers when patients were injured. So, the hospitals believed that their incidents were isolated. This may have been legal, but was highly unethical.