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Therac-25: The Race Condition That Turned a Medical Accelerator Deadly

Therac-25 became the canonical software-safety case because lethal overdoses emerged from race conditions, removed hardware interlocks, opaque errors, and weak incident learning.

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Panama’s Radiotherapy Overdoses: When Treatment-Planning Input Exceeded the Software’s Assumptions

Panama's radiotherapy accident showed how flexible-looking input, undocumented software limits, and missing independent dose checks could combine into lethal treatment errors.

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