Comment by bookofjoe
10 hours ago
Having followed your comments here for years, I was shocked to read that you got Theranos tests. From the get-go, long before the WSJ exposé, it was apparent to me this was a complete fraud. I based my thinking on long experience (38 years) drawing blood for tests.
> was shocked to read that you got Theranos tests
I’d been reading about them for a few years, never got personally involved in any capacity, was in Phoenix for a long-distance relationship and saw the billboard and thought “why not?” When I saw the results I panicked. Ex post facto I figured something went wrong with my draw (full venous draw, by the way).
I have no background in medicine, and I was probably considerably stupider at the time inasmuch as I was in my twenties, so I never connected it to being a fraud, instead concluding their kit didn’t work reliably and that they’d launched prematurely and would have to pull back from the market and regroup (and get sued) for a while.
Do you ask the doctor to stop so you can discuss which vendor will be recieving test materials prior to blood draw?
I would NEVER patronize a doctor who sent my blood to Theranos. At the time it was operating in Arizona, it was only after a tremendously intense and expensive lobbying campaign to get approval. That was very much in the news at the time.
Is your doctor the one who actually takes your blood and sends it in for tests? Where I'm from, the doctor just orders a blood test, and you go to some other lab facility somewhere (with some discretionary choice) and get it done by a phlebotomist and its more or less outside of the doctor's purview.
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This doesn't make sense. You are just getting your blood drawn. You don't even see who is doing the test until it's done. How on earth would you even know.
I’m generally discerning of the lab doing my bloodwork. You can look up ratings online. Less out of paranoia for being defrauded and more for comfort.