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This reminds me of a time I played with entering data into a terrible system.

A GE MRI scanner had options in the software that could be on, or off. Rather than a check box you typed ‘1’ or ‘0’. This is relatively recently.

I tried for a while to find a field that would accept other values, and eventually found one. When the sequences ran it crashed the scanner and the patient had to be rebooked as the reboot takes a long time.

I don’t test on patients anymore.



I.. wouldn't like to be trapped in an MRI machine with an operator who's typing random values into the software to try to see what it does. I mean I know MRIs are relatively safe, but they're still huge machines with moving parts you're supposed to be inside of.




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