Re: "The life of our patients is at stake"
It reminds me of Larry Niven's "The Ethics of Madness", a (long) short story from 1967. The plot is triggered by a malfunctioning automatic drug-dispensing machine.
It's an interesting story for people in IT, as much because of how its predictions do and don't match what's happened in the past 48 years. A key aspect (not much of a spoiler, since this is revealed in the first couple of pages) is that the setting is a future which features, among other things, FTL spaceflight, psychoactive drugs which can control severe paranoid schizophrenia with no noticeable side effects, and desktop machines which not only can dispense such drugs but give the patient a manicure in the process.1
What it doesn't feature is decent user interfaces, fail-safe mechanisms, or LEDs. Its want-of-a-nail failure cascade begins when a warning lamp on the "autodoc" fails to light because it's a decade old and has burned out.
So on the one hand, it's way off regarding the sophistication of our user interfaces. We're a long way from magical treatments for psychosis, hopefully a long way from robot manicures, and probably forever away from FTL space travel;2 but even our refrigerators are available with much better error-reporting mechanisms than a single pair of red/green indicators. And, of course, we have LEDs.
On the other hand, it's pretty prescient in guessing that the people who design medical technology will make awesomely stupid choices about safety and failure modes.
1I'll use a robot car if I must, but no way in hell am I getting a robot manicure.
2Them's the breaks, kids.