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Yeah that's straight up malpractice. If there's a 99% chance it's Covid and not something else, you do the Covid test first and if that comes back negative, th
by peeters 6y ago
Yeah that's straight up malpractice. If there's a 99% chance it's Covid and not something else, you do the Covid test first and if that comes back negative, then you test for the "something else" (if symptoms are severe enough).
- arcticfox 6y agoIt's even worse than that, he was testing asymptomatic patients with a full panel. That part takes it from probably unethical to full-blown fraud for me. > But in interviews, asymptomatic patients said they had also received the more expensive test.
- vharuck 6y agoFor asymptomatic patients, doing those tests could easily cause net harm from follow-up to false positives. So, even if the tests had been free, it's probably unethical. This is why organizations like the United States Preventative Services Task Force exist. They review studies and recommend best practices for medical screening. They do recommend against asymptomatic screening for a lot of tests.