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> So, again, why would more open access to baseline metabolic metrics be a bad thing? not a bad thing if you considered it in isolation for a single individual
by chii 4y ago
> So, again, why would more open access to baseline metabolic metrics be a bad thing?
not a bad thing if you considered it in isolation for a single individual. But for an entire society? The cost of doing so might be quite high, even if there's an economy of scale efficiency improvement for such large amount of testing/diagnostics.
The recommended regime of diet, exercise and such, are a solution for most people that doesn't require you to know your own metric (and the example of pregnancy is a non-sequitur because this isn't a normal state of affairs, and when pregnant people can easily choose to do such bloodwork to measure their metrics).
- dcow 4y agoSo it’s “normal” for essentially half of all people to do regular bloodwork for significant phases of their lives. And old people and sex workers and there are more examples than I think you realize where people have blood drawn on the regular. I’m not sure you really have the scale dialed in. Either way, my example is most certainly a non-sequitur, we agree, because it’s an example, not a conclusion (8 To be clear, I’m advocating for a solution that’s more like doing a full metabolic panel every year, so you can catch people with Vitamin D deficiency. And/or an improved approach/UX surrounding managing patient case flows. I mean tracking tasks through workflow states is a very solved problem. To my knowledge hospitals don’t employ any such methodology.