The Medical Scandal
Hiiii and welcome back to diaryofanoverthinker, before I begin I’d like to say I’m sorry for not posting in a while I was writing exams and really just wanted to focus on studying but I will be posting regularly every Saturday just like before. Now getting to todays topic Theranos which was a medical company that turned out to be one big scandal. So sit back relax and enjoy!
What is Theranos and who founded it?
Let’s start with the basics and find out, what exactly is Theranos? Well Theranos was a privately owned company that was thought to be a breakthrough company in the field of health technology.
This company was founded in 2003 by 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes, no not like Sherlock. She claimed that her company could make a prototype that could take blood tests with very small amounts of blood but obviously this was false well kind of.
More about the company
Now that you have the basic information let’s talk about if this prototype was even real. Holmes was able to make the prototype however it didn’t exactly work and gave wrong results majority of the time but she ran out of money and began lying that it did work.
After that she made the same lie to many other potential investors getting everyone excited about this huge breakthrough in health technology. However the problem started when they actually began using it on patience because up till now the lie wasn’t actually causing harm to people and it was just a prototype but since it didn’t work patience often got wrong results which meant they couldn’t get the help they needed.
By now Elizabeth was so hooked on the success and becoming like her role model Steve Jobs she didn’t care and would send the blood samples to actual labs to get tested which still resulted in wrong results.
By now her obsession became so far that she even started dressing like Steve Jobs and some say she even had a fake voice that was deeper making her sound more serious and professional .This girl was basically living the saying fake it till you make but I prefer to say she was the one who started Be delulu till it becomes trulul because that’s the sululu but obviously it wasn’t.
My opinion
Honestly I think her idea was a good one and if she had enough money to improve the first prototype like you should in this field it could have worked but at the same time I don’t know that for sure. I mean putting peoples lives in danger was really bad but she had an idea and it could have been amazing so who knows.
Well that’s todays blog and if you want more detail I press the following links below to one of my favourite channels which has a loads of videos on similar topics and makes them very fun to watch.
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