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by byteclub 5646 days ago
"To work around that problem hospitals needed to, as one medical physicist put it, essentially trick the machine into thinking it was using a different attachment, which it did recognize. To do that, users had to enter additional data into the SRS system."

Scary.

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Very. Presumably they're paying for hefty support contracts as part of the purchase of these machines - I cannot imagine that the developers recommended medical end-users alter the system. If so they seem culpable.