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It was worse than just using siemens machines and claiming they were doing it with their own.

They were taking small amounts of blood, too small for the siemens machines and then diluting it down to increase the volume.

So not only were they passing it off as if it was their own machines, but they were providing inaccurate test results leading to incorrect diagnosis.

And I can't believe they got as far as they did with the scam because lots of experts were saying what she was claiming was not possible. Because a drop of blood is simply not large enough to get a statistical result for most things tested. It doesn't matter how amazing or sensitive your machinery is, you can't give a correct result if you simply don't have a large enough sample.




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