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Normally nurses draw more than necessary so that the lab can do retests, or do additional tests. Once you're sticking a needle in someones vein the marginal ag

• throwanem 10y ago
  If that's the difference, it means either: - Theranos' vein-stick patients, in the aggregate, got stuck more often than patients whose bloodwork was processed by other "traditional labs", because their vein stick samples didn't include the usual amount of padding; or - Theranos' "traditional", i.e. non-Edison, results were more than ordinarily bogus, too, because they didn't have enough sample to rerun questionable results and didn't poke another hole in the patient to get more. Neither seems a point in favor.