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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Martha Bellisle and Devi Shastri

Tech outage halts surgeries, medical treatments across the US

Alison Baulos

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Alison Baulos says her 73-year-old father was about to head to a Kentucky hospital for open-heart surgery when it was abruptly canceled early Friday morning. His was one of the many operations and medical treatments halted across the country because of a global technology outage.

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