Theranos: Almost Complete Absence of Laboratory Medicine Input

The biotechnology company Theranos has been consistently appearing across newspaper and magazine headlines over the past few years (1–3). In 2014, the firm's then 30-year-old founder, charismatic Stanford-dropout Elizabeth Holmes, began to receive tremendous amounts of media attention (1–4). She was trumpeted as a visionary as she proclaimed her plan to revolutionize blood testing (2). Her company garnered hundreds of millions of dollars...