Why on earth is medical equipment running standard Windows? This is the ideal location for some basic RTOS or even just an embedded Linux. Seems like a huge cost and risk for no gain.
This is a great phrase. "Joe was hindered by knowledge of what a p-value means and so didn't claim he discovered a key to understanding the disease."
Given the sheer amount of overhead in enterprise BS medical hardware has (read: sales people likely get the biggest chunk of the absorbed costs) it wouldn't be a surprise to me that the engineering teams amount to a skeleton crew while 70%+ of the personnel involved are non-engineers that override the professional decisions of the engineers.
Both of these have reasons behind them and appear to make sense. Leaders in the RTOS space appear to be QNX and vxworks. Suitable languages people raise are Rust and Go.
Based on some Google time, neither of these platforms support either of these OS's. Multiple "Introduction to vxworks" documents are all exclusively in C.
In terms of accessibility, safe languages are far easier for someone to get their hands on, test to death, than some of the OS's recommended.