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dematz • yesterday at 12:49 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Yes, I believe US hospitals are legally required to maintain and test backup generators in case power goes out.

Of course proof by analogy is silly anyways, my email going down is not nearly as bad as a patient's medical equipment going down.


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officeplant • yesterday at 2:16 PM

>Yes, I believe US hospitals are legally required to maintain and test backup generators in case power goes out.

And even that only does so much, it was 45 years ago but my Grandmother had a stroke on the operating table because the power went out and generators didn't kick on until someone could run and manually start them because the autostart failed.