A man with one clock…
…always knows what time it is, whereas a man with two is never sure.
A recent article in the Economist describes the research of Julian Goldman, who discovered that of 1,700 hospital medical devices he tested, the internal clocks of 97% were wrong.
The average error was 24 minutes, one in 5 devices were out by more than 30 mins, and one device was running 42 years early!
Most of the time this won’t matter, but where the timeliness or duration of the therapy is crucial, then this could be significant, even life-threatening.
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