Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: The medical industry is not regulated? Message-ID: <1429@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 17:33:40 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1429 Posted: Thu Feb 28 17:33:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 21:22:58 EST References: <243@mhuxr.UUCP> <3381@alice.UUCP> <248@mhuxr.UUCP> <682@unmvax.UUCP> <494@whuxl.UUCP> Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 29 Summary: >The point is there are many professionals in industry that are not government >certified and many of them are responsible for decisions that could cost >lives if mistakes are made. If a company may be liable for faulty products >then it is in everyones best interest to see that key people know what they >are doing. > >--Cliff One might hope that people holding publicly sensitive jobs would in due course come under certification regulations. The fact that technology is now changing very rapidly should not be used as an indication that these professions shouldn't be certified. You know what the company's response is to a faulty product: hire PR people and fancy lawyers to prove to the public and to the courts that they didn't do it, they didn't know it was dangerous, it wasn't their fault anyway, and the victim should have been more careful, so it's the fault of the dead for being there. I prefer not to have the fatal (so-called) accidents happen. Training, certification, and regulation should be properly applied, not eliminated because there now exist significant areas where fools are allowed to kill people and get away with claiming ignorance. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt