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Ethical dilemma: The Therac 25 caused medical accidents and professionals…
Ethical dilemma: The Therac 25 caused medical accidents and professionals chose to write them off as nothing and continued to use it ion treatments until the claims were taken seriously.
Katie Yarborough, doctors, technical specialist, other previous patients, employees.
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Decision is Alternative two stop use . Clearly the software had problems that killed people. Three sever injuries and three deaths is unacceptable and although treatment might be set back on patients fro some time and hospitals as well as the company that produced the Therac might financially hurt, it is better than causing more deaths and suffering even bigger law suits. Fro ma moral perspective this is also the right decision.
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If everyone took Alternative one and ignored the incidents caused by the Therac 25 then this would be a major ethical dilemma as you are intentionally opening the door for more patients to be injured or killed.
If everyone took Alternative two and stopped the Therac 25 use then you would have a for sure law suit as the problem as now been acknowledged however you would be saving patients from harm and doing the morally right thing.