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>> with the walgreens rollout, the problems at theranos were magnified. instead of shutting down until the edisons could perform all the tests on the theranos menu, elizabeth and her team invented a work around, designed to create the illusion of a new technology. for most tests, they were forced to use venous blood, drawn with needles. but to keep elizabeths finger stick dream alive, theranos modified some of those machines so it would work with diluted capillary samples. and for a handful of p...

The edisons could perform all the tests on the theranos menu, elizabeth and her team invented a work ja -- workaround designed to create the illusion of a new technology. for most tests, they were forced to use venous blood, drawn with needles. but to keep elizabeths finger stick dream alive, theranos modified some of those machines so it would work with diluted capillary samples. and for a handful of patient tests, the company used the old edison prototype elizabeth had pitched to walgreens. >>...