NYT: Medical Radiation: A Plan Goes Wrong

[Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () gmail com>]

fyi,

Via RISKS:  http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.93.html

"A New York City hospital treating him for tongue cancer had failed to
detect a computer error that directed a linear accelerator to blast
his brain stem and neck with errant beams of radiation. Not once, but
on three consecutive days.  Mr. Jerome-Parks died several weeks later
in 2007. He was 43."

NYT Article:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html
NYT Slideshow:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/24/us/20100124RADIATION1_index.html

--scm
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