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Re: Key Medical Workstation Client Runs on Linux
by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Wednesday April 06, 2005 @ 12:53 PM
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I realize that you probably said this in jest, but the deaths are not because of software, they are as a result of things like medication ordering errors, drug interactions and insufficient or illegible information. These are problems that software could improve and it is the contention/bias/slant/whatever of this website and community that FOSS software is the preferred way of doing it.
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Re: Key Medical Workstation Client Runs on Linux
by Doctacular on Saturday November 26, 2005 @ 04:01 PM
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Please do not confuse the goals and ideals of an OSS application and its community with the innate ability that a doctor has to prescribe the incorrect medicine or dosage to a patient when s/he isn't paying due attention to what s/he is doing.
Just because an application is based on Linux will not mean that the doctor will not make that mistake.
OSS applications and communities may well have the right goals, but they cannot completely eliminate a doctor's stupidity at times - just as a proprietary Windows (or other) application also cannot prevent this.
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Re: Key Medical Workstation Client Runs on Linux
by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday November 26, 2005 @ 07:58 PM
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NOTHING can totally eliminate human error. However, quality engineering, whether FOSS or proprietary, can reduce it substantially. -- IV
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