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To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (412)	11/11/1997 10:53:00 PM
From: Steve Rubakh	Read Replies (2) of 9818

Doctors in the dock if Y2K bug kills their patients By Giles Turnbull, New Media Correspondent, PA News Doctors could face manslaughter charges if medical equipment malfunctions as a result of the year 2000 computer bug, according to a report in Computing magazine. The magazine reports that NHS trust chiefs could be open to legal action if electronic life support systems fail and cause deaths. According to the magazine, "NHS insiders" claim no-one knows how many microchips in various pieces of equipment might be affected. The Government's Medical Devices Agency (MDA) will shortly issue guidelines for hospital trusts worried about the problem, it says.

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