The lab industry is corrupt to its core. Its always been about kickbacks and unnecessary testing. It is laughable how women have been charged 800 to 2000 dollars for a freaking pap test thanks to all the lab developed tests that some are pushing. The validation studies are flimsy and the medical necessity is low.
Tell that to the 24 women in the U.S. who developed chancroid in 2010. Of course it's medically necessary to screen the entire female population of America for an organisim endemic to the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Tell that to the 24 women in the U.S. who developed chancroid in 2010. Of course it's medically necessary to screen the entire female population of America for an organisim endemic to the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
For those of you with a third grade education, this poster is being facetious.
LOL. What I love is how different companies pump women full of fear about ordering tests like these. Make it look like these diseases are common or that they will harm them if they dont find it ASAP. I noticed one company really putting out the scare tactics about Trichomonas lately trying to make all women fear that they may have it and not know it. Oh my, what will they do?
Lab industry and health care in general is a cesspool. Its a bubble that is imploding just like housing, dot.com and on and on.
Part II out this morning:
"Talk about a company that knows how to test the limits of credibility. By now, Bio-Reference Laboratories (Nasdaq: BRLI) has contradicted itself so many times that its own statements establish the company as blatantly deceitful at worst and dangerously unreliable at the absolute best. As illustrated by the string of conflicting viewpoints and glaring reversals that follow, most of them directly attributable to the company itself, Bio-Reference might face more than a few challenges if it dared an attempt at passing a lie-detector test."
http://www.thestreetsweeper.org/