Published by admin on April 22, 2026 Every major medical device safety disaster has a predictable anatomy — and it's the same anatomy as drug safety disasters. From the Dalkon Shield in the 1970s to metal-on-metal hips in the 2000s, from Therac-25's lethal radiation overdoses to Philips' contaminated CPAP machines, the pattern repeats: warning signs existed, the science was available, and no one with authority was accountable to act on it. The device world just has its own particularly insidious ways of letting danger through.