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I’ve never understood what the real world-changing part of Theranos was. Ok great you can do lab tests with less blood, is it to save people squeamish about la

I’ve never understood what the real world-changing part of Theranos was. Ok great you can do lab tests with less blood, is it to save people squeamish about larger blood draws? Maybe I don’t understand it but this always seemed silly to me and more about convenience. The disruption was about replacing phlebotomists? We make plenty of blood.

dominotw 8y ago
Elizabeth’s impromptu pitch about how her novel way of testing blood from just a finger prick could help diagnose and treat wounded soldiers faster, and potentially save lives, had found a receptive audience in the four-star general. - Bad blood.
duxup 8y ago
I think the idea was that blood testing could be done on a significantly larger scale and that somehow would pay dividends health and otherwise wise. You'd be doing blood testing for almost anything then. You can insert what you feel that might be. You're not wrong as the questions start to mount there. Still significantly more tests, with less blood, at way cheaper prices could earn them a ton of money, of course they couldn't actually do any of that.
C1sc0cat 8y ago
It can be a real PITA if you have to do regular bloods. At one point I had to take an extra day off a week before my regular clinic just to do bloods. It can also be a time consuming process to find a vein and draw blood. If I could pop into my local GP (family doctor) or have a mobile service come to work and quickly do the tests id be saving a lot of annual leave
- brandon272 8y ago
  I believe Holmes' claimed their eventual goal was to eventually enable people to have their finger stick blood testing devices in their own homes.
buboard 8y ago
well if there was a device you could buy to do the tests at home i d buy it for sure
dekhn 8y ago
more tests with fewer draws. getting people to have blood tests is a lot of work, if you reduce the number of times you have to do it, the number of tests people get goes up.

dominotw 8y ago

Elizabeth’s impromptu pitch about how her novel way of testing blood from just a finger prick could help diagnose and treat wounded soldiers faster, and potentially save lives, had found a receptive audience in the four-star general. - Bad blood.

duxup 8y ago

I think the idea was that blood testing could be done on a significantly larger scale and that somehow would pay dividends health and otherwise wise. You'd be doing blood testing for almost anything then. You can insert what you feel that might be. You're not wrong as the questions start to mount there. Still significantly more tests, with less blood, at way cheaper prices could earn them a ton of money, of course they couldn't actually do any of that.

C1sc0cat 8y ago

It can be a real PITA if you have to do regular bloods. At one point I had to take an extra day off a week before my regular clinic just to do bloods. It can also be a time consuming process to find a vein and draw blood. If I could pop into my local GP (family doctor) or have a mobile service come to work and quickly do the tests id be saving a lot of annual leave

brandon272 8y ago
I believe Holmes' claimed their eventual goal was to eventually enable people to have their finger stick blood testing devices in their own homes.

buboard 8y ago

well if there was a device you could buy to do the tests at home i d buy it for sure

dekhn 8y ago

more tests with fewer draws. getting people to have blood tests is a lot of work, if you reduce the number of times you have to do it, the number of tests people get goes up.