> Would FOSS Have Saved Patients' Lives?

FOSS can be written the same as any other software, and there's plenty of FOSS that fails to meet modern best practices.

But a software building code might have saved lives. The same way building codes save lives around the world every day, by ensuring safety-critical things in the world aren't slapped together haphazardly, and are tested for safety.

Ask your representatives in government to assemble a professional body to set software building codes for the software that could potentially kill you.