The Associated Press"An errant keystroke caused the hospital's computer to spit out the wrong discharge instructions..." Can you imagine? Think about the consequences if this had been a situation where the hospital staff treated him for an illness he didn't have, or gave him medication to which he was allergic simply because of "an errant keystroke"!
updated 6:23 p.m. ET, Fri., Sept. 26, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. - A patient treated for agonizing abdominal pain received this surprising news in the hospital’s paperwork: “Based on your visit today, we know you are pregnant.”
Surprising indeed for 71-year-old John Grady Pippen.
The staff at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach gave the retired mechanic and logger the ridiculously happy news this month, along with some pain pills.
Hospital administrator William McMillan says an errant keystroke caused the hospital’s computer to spit out the wrong discharge instructions for the grandfather.
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I'm so incredibly grateful we can trust God's input through His infallible Word. We don't need to worry about "an errant keystroke" leading us astray or giving us a false remedy for sin-sick souls. God's Word is COMPLETELY trustworthy! The problem is, we don't believe it or somehow we believe it doesn't pertain to us.
The Word of God is absolutely truth. No errancy. No misleading information. No wrong instruction. No hint of fallibility.
Don't put your trust on any individual (even if they're a pastor or teacher) to replace the instruction and remedy for sin found in the Word of God.
Man fails. Computers fail. God never fails!
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Ha! That reminds me of the time when my daughter was born. The hospital highly recommended some type of "security" picture/program, I suppose to keep your baby from being mixed up with another. Funny (scary?) thing was, that when they mailed me my daughter's newborn "security" photograph (over a month later!), it wasn't her. How do I know, since all babies kind of look alike at birth? Well, for starters, the baby in the photograph that they sent was an entirely different race! So, then, they corrected the mistake and sent the "right" photograph. Ahhh, no. Another different race ... still not mine!
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