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>raises the question of whether HIV+ individuals will be more likely to attempt to donate in order to "prove they're safe". What? This sounds like completely m
by sigmar 8y ago
>raises the question of whether HIV+ individuals will be more likely to attempt to donate in order to "prove they're safe".
What? This sounds like completely made up scaremongering. Why wouldn't they just get their viral load tested?
- killjoywashere 8y agoThinking of remote possibilities and assuming your patients could be lying to you (corollary: trust but verify) is pretty standard practice in medicine.
- sigmar 8y agoand your solution to these adversarial patients that are willing to lie is to... ask a second question?
- killjoywashere 8y agoWhether Bayesian or Frequentist, surely you can agree the result of different tests are unlikely to have 100% concordance.