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To: Jim who wrote (7868)	8/8/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: ANGELIQUE LEE	Read Replies (2) of 9818

Jim, In my reading in the general media about pacemaker issues I have found that the risk being talked about is: the possibility that software diagnostic tools which are used to interpret and store the data could have a problem with the new century dates, and if the data is incorrectly interpreted or lost or improperly retrieved, that could lead to a host of medical diagnostic problems. I think this is a classsic example of the pollys and the doomers. The doomers are up in arms over fringe media reports of y2k non-compliancy in the pacemakers, somehow implying that actual function of the equipment will be impaired. The polly's are pointing our that it really shouldn't be an issue, common sense should take over, it's just a date, pacemaker function is NOT impaired. The truth lies somewhere in between, that as along as there is a system of computer managed data and unquestioning humans interpreting that data,the potential for problems exists. Angelique

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