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It gives me anxiety just looking at this. Add this to the list of things I don't want to work on.

On the producing or consuming side? FWIW, I found the article interesting as I'm starting a new Oxygenator project so I'm probably about to become even more familiar with IEC60601 :-(

I don't want to work on software where bugs might cost someone their life.

I get that, but it's very unlikely to happen. The benefit of your code vastly outweighs the potential downside. As engineers, we're used to only hearing about the problems. It's really gratifying when you hear from someone who says, "tell your engineers that they saved my life."

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