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by legostormtroopr 3645 days ago
Except your test results could come back falsely positive causing you to get sick from treatment to cure a disease you don't have.

See the problem?

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I'd expect my physician to interpret them with the proper expectation. All tests have some probability of a false negative or false positive, and medicine is not so simple as reading a test result and ordering treatment.
It shouldn't be, but it is.