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No. This is not a doomsday scenario.

All it takes is one bad chip in a critical location in one instrument and that instrument is down, or at least rolled back to "limp mode" depending on which feature the chip supports. That instrument may be processing hundreds or thousands of patients a day if it is installed in a large medical lab. Do you see the problem here?

Sure, an Emergency Service Call will take care of the problem, but that can take hours (over a day in some locations).




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