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In the 1980s, a state-of-the-art radiation machine was supposed to save lives. But patients started coming back with burns that didn’t make sense… pain that shouldn’t have been possible… and symptoms doctors didn’t believe. The machine said everything was fine. It wasn’t. This is the story of the Therac‑25 — and what happens when we trust technology more than people.

Sources:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs240/cs240.1236/old//sp2014/readings/therac-25.pdf

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf

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