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Ethical Dilemma: A company has paid for multiple Therac 25 machines and…
Ethical Dilemma: A company has paid for multiple Therac 25 machines and they have already been set up and are ready to go. But just recently the company has become aware of the recent incidents.
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Relevant Facts
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Therac-25 hardware safeguard featues were omitted, leaving the software entirely responsible for all safety issues.
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Programmer of Therac-25 worked in assembly language, a very low level language.
Therac-25 caused six accidents that seriously harmed patients, and three died directly becuase of the machine.
The accidents of Therac-25 revealed the potential harm and the need for a more disciplined approach to software development.
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Future changes
If there is news about an incident anywhere because of the machine, the hospitals should stop using the machine until further investigation by the company and until the company assures that the machine is okay.
The hospitals should see the working of machine for an efficient and non-efficient user and the results before installing it in their premises and using it on their patients
The company should experiment on their machines for extensively long period of time before making it available for the hospitals