‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping

Re:‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping by davidw on Saturday October 17, 2009 @05:32PM (#887457)

Early on in my career I read about some medical device software and decided that this was not something I wanted to be involved with. The idea of worrying that something I wrote could potentially kill people is not a pleasant one.

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Re:‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping by psyklic on Saturday October 17, 2009 @06:12PM (#887511)

Well you could potentially help people too ... :-)

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Re:‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping by yellowbkpk on Saturday October 17, 2009 @06:58PM (#887563)

I write medical software every day that is very close to patients. When I see our software (or maybe software I know the intricate workings of) helping doctors save patients, I am happy.

When stuff like what's in this article happens, it is quite disappointing. Luckily none of the projects I've worked on have come close to endangering patients.

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Re:‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping by smanek on Saturday October 17, 2009 @08:13PM (#887663)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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Re:‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping by tomjen2 on Saturday October 17, 2009 @07:42PM (#887626)

That was exactly what I told one of my professors. She pointed out that then I would also deprive the users of the benefit.

Never mind that - let somebody really good work on that.

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