Quote Originally Posted by Jimbo View Post
Of course, you can go buy a competing operating system. What's the alternative with medicine?

James.
The thing is, there are so many rules and regulations, which are in large part responsible.
I work for a big pharma company as a sysadmin for the production process network. By law, there are specification on how we have to work, which data we have to keep, which processes we have to use, etc. Our bureaucratic and administrative overhead and associated costs are huge. Can we cut costs?

Sure we can. Or at least, we could, if we could cut bureacratic corners, and as a result not always be entirely certain about what we produce. It would be allright 99% of the time. Unfortunately, that 1% could potentially ruin the company if something bad were to happen.

But we're not allowed to cut those corners, and we get audited by several medical audit teams per year. FDA, EMEA, Japanese, etc.