Unforgivable medical errors

The NY Times article in question is http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html?pa... (one page).

I happen to cough know people that work with the same software suite described in the article. They encounter errors daily that are unexplainable by IT and by the company itself. Scary stuff.

The comments to the submitted article include a detailed discussion of design issues for software used in medical treatment. From those comments are links to many classic articles on software design.