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What about when issues affect more than just a patient’s privacy?Observations and Perspective· Minor design and implementation errors usually occur in complex systems; they are to be expected· The problems in the Therac-25 case were not minor and suggest irresponsibility· Accidents occurred on other radiation treatment equipment without computer controls when the technicians:o Left a patient after treatment started to attend a partyo Did not properly measure the radioactive drugso Confused micro-curies and milli-curiesIf you were a judge who had to assign responsibility in this case, how much responsibility would you assign to the programmer, the manufacturer, and the hospital or clinic using the machine?Baase, S., & Henry, T. (2019). A gift of fire: social, legal, and ethical issues for computing technology. NY, NY: Pearson
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