Scary Headlines - Skippy the Implanted Defibrillator

Today, this showed up in my inbox:  I don't see my manufacturer listed, but this is just a horrifying idea.

FDA Calls On Manufacturers To Fix Heart Defibrillator Issues.

The AP (11/16) reports, "Federal health officials are calling on manufacturers of heart-zapping defibrillators to fix long-standing problems with the emergency devices that have triggered dozens of recalls and occasionally have led to injuries and death."... the devices have been plagued by design and manufacturing flaws for years, occasionally failing to work..."  

Design and manufacturing flaws - it would seem to me that an implanted defibrillator would be one of those devices where the quality goal should be zero error.  It's not a hammer or a coffee maker where 'more or less' OK is probably acceptable.  It's an implanted defibrillator, placed there because our hearts have been known to stop without warning.

I am getting pretty pissed this morning.  The American pissed, not the British one.
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