[LINK] Power failure lasting 36 hours cripples hospital care

[Glen Turner]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Scenario in 10 years or so when all the hard copy docs and nurses are 
> out of the system:
> Gen X doctor: what's film?

By then the cost of CCD-based X-ray systems will have fallen
to under that of film-based systems. So there won't be any
analogue alternative. Let's hope the digital systems use
open standards, so when all else fails the movie can be
written to a USB stick and viewed on a typical computer.