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Eh. If you send out two shipments of Doritos, nobody dies. If you administer a med twice, a patient very well could die. Consequently, if you make it even 1% more likely that a med will be administered twice, patients will die.


Absolutely true. That said, software should never replace human thinking (until the singularity, Ray) and the clinician must be the final authority.

Same goes for pilots - the software can help, but as too many pilots have discovered, looking only at the instrument panel (especially one instrument) is a bad idea, speaking from experience ;)




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