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People were very upset. some members of the lab would even have to call patients and tell them that they had to go to emergency room because the lab test was so far off. >> what really hit home for me was we were starting to do more infectious disease, hepatitis c, prostate cancer, and even syphilis. >> i was running precision testing for syphilis, and there was a lot of variability in the test. but theranos said, this is safe to use on real patient samples. and i was kind of blown away. if 100 people who had syphilis came and got tested on the theranos devices, we would only tell 65 of them t...

Patient samples. i was, like, filling up containers, doing so many manual things with my hands. and the scary thing was they could hop off your tray and they would be on the ground and you might not be able to spot them. >> they had to dilute the nanotaners to run off the machines, which was not how they were supposed to be used. so, people who worked in the clinical lab were nervous about that because they were violating the operating standards for those devices, which are rigorous standards, since they're being used to test people for diseases. we were fudging results, rerunning qualify cont...

Have to call patients and tell them they had to go to the emergency room because the lab test was so far off. >> what really hit home for me was we were starting to do more infectious disease, hepatitis c, prostate cancer, and even syphilis. >> i was running precision testing for syphilis, and there was a lot of variability in the test. but theranos said, this is safe to use on real patient samples. and i was kind of blown away. if 100 people who had syphilis came and got tested on the theranos devices, we would only tell 65 of them that they had syphilis. and we would tell the other 35, you'r...

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 elizabeth's 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. >> what we've worked to do is eliminate the error and variability that's associated with human proces...

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