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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...senior doctors acting for the local health authority said many cancer patients had died because their radiation dosages had been miscalculated. In 1982 the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary bought a computer programmed to determine precise dosages for cancer treatment. But it arrived minus an instruction manual. Senior physicist Margaret Grieveson assumed that a "correction factor" needed to adjust the dosages had not been programmed in. Unfortunately, it had. The result: in the years from 1982 to 1991, 1,045 patients received insufficient radiation. Four hundred and one died; 91 who are still alive have experienced a recurrence of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk of the Streets | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

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