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Therac-25 Case Ethical Dilemma revolves around the potential harm caused…
Therac-25 Case Ethical Dilemma revolves around the potential harm caused to patients due to software-related issues. The software, which was responsible for controlling the medical linear accelerator, had critical flaws that resulted in patients receiving overdoses of radiation. One ethical dilemma that arises from this scenario is whether hospitals choose to offer this technology given that there is a risk of giving patients an overdose of radiation.
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Decision
In 1987, the FDA recalled ALL machines. This essentially shut down the use of the Therac-25s
Assuming the point of view of a hospital PRIOR to the ban of these machines, we came to a conclusion that we would halt the use of Therac-25s temporarily in our hospital this would reduce the risk of further injuring at-risk patients and limit the defamation of our hospital and it's staff
Ideally, we would seek out a bug / software fix to not completely waste the cost of the machines and training to use them. If the company did not offer that, we would halt the use all together.
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Relevant Facts
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Machines massively overdosed 6 people, resulting in death for 3 of them