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A Dim View of the Future
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Originally posted by Spanky
She said she wasn't upset? A false positive? You are told you life is pretty much toast or at least ruined and they don't expect any psychological scarring to go along with that?
What if she committed suicide.
I assume there was negligence. If there is one test they should be sure that they give you the right result it should be this one.
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From the article: "We were just so grateful. We didn't get mad until nobody cared," Johnson said.
ETA: And this post shows exactly why you shouldn't be anywhere near healthcare if you think that there is ANY test in the world, including a HIV tests, where false-positives don't come up. Even 99.9 percent accurate tests will have a huge number of false positives in a large population. And I'm sorry to tell you that there are very, very few 99.9 percent accurate tests in the world.
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Last edited by Replaced_Texan; 08-26-2005 at 05:56 PM..
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