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Opinion: Why Do-It-Yourself Blood Tests are a Bad Idea

6 Jul, 2018 | 03:16h | UTC

Why do-it-yourself blood tests are a bad idea – Common Sense Family Doctor (free)

Related: Benjamin Mazer: Theranos’ dystopian vision lives on – The BMJ Opinion (free)

“Routine blood testing in healthy people has numerous downsides that Holmes never mentioned, including poor predictive value, false positives, and overdiagnosis” (from Common Sense Family Doctor)

“When you go about testing everyone for everything, you don’t create a world of healthy people….you create a nightmare where everyone is sick” (from The BMJ Opinion)

 


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