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Honestly, is empowering patients to have control over their testing really a mundane trial or incremental test? The magic I saw in Theranos was in their ability

• stevehawk 8y ago
  I honestly fear the day consumers can fully do that. I already have to listen to a bunch of night time calls from patients to my wife where they are obviously spending the day, post clinic visit for testing or diagnosis or post surgery, using google to either question her diagnosis /treatment or reinforce their own hypochondriac behavior. I realize there are reasons for some people to question medical decisions, like if your family was victim to something like the Tuskegee Syphilis trialing, but people need to know their thirty minutes of online browsing doesn't replace a decade of medical education. (note I'm not saying we shouldn't be able to do some of our own testing like blood sugar level, cholesterol, some others, but more like things where just because you had an elevated level of X doesn't mean you have Y and you should self treat immediately. And in probably jaded on this because she deals with a lot of people that think either vitamin C or the power of prayer will cure them or that she's lying about cancer because a chiropractor's thermagram doesn't show it)
• evrydayhustling 8y ago
  The problem I see with this test is that it is purely business model, no tech or fixed investment required. If CVS found it interesting, they could trial it trivially themselves, right? Disclaimer: not an expert in this market, so tell me where Theranos could have brought an innovation that isn't easily replicated to the test.