A short transcript of a dialogue (two speakers) discussing harms caused by inaccurate medical tests: emotional stress, financial costs, and clinicians guessing at explanations when results are inconsistent. The speakers emphasize patient suffering from misleading markers (e.g., false autoimmune signals) and view the emotional harm as particularly concerning.
The thing that gets me, though, is people are suffering. Practitioners are suffering through inaccurate.
Tests and.
Figuring out what to do. And then they'll run one and something doesn't calculate. It doesn't compute. And we have to come up with, well, you know, you're excreting more than you did before, whatever. You know, like, we make up stuff for what's a lack. In some of these.
Tests, the patients are suffering because.
They'Re spending an obscene amount of money on.
Things that might lead to undue.
Stress that they didn't need to know in the first place, that these markers are out of range. And, oh, guess what? You have autoimmunity. Great. Wonderful. You know, I mean, in some cases, that's helpful, but in some, if the, if the test isn't accurate and it's leading to stress or fear in somebody's life, that, I'm sorry, deep down in my heart, I have a huge problem with that. It's not even the financial part.
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