Agony, Alarm and Anger for People Hurt by Theranos’s Botched Blood Tests
What scum Theranos is. That they continue to operate as a company is an indictment of our country’s ability to regulate corporations. And a lesson in the facts of fail-fast-startup culture, these things have a human cost.
“80% of the 834 quality-control checks that raised a red flag under Theranos’s internal standards were more than three standard deviations from its average result, the inspection notes show. Theranos has told regulators it used the Edison from November 2013 to June 2015.
“‘It doesn’t give me a lot of confidence the patients’ results could be right,’ said James Westgard, a scientist who developed widely used quality-control rules for the lab-testing industry.”
Questionable results led to changes in medical treatment. Weeks or months passed before Theranos told many people their results were unreliable.
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