I first heard about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos when the Wall Street Journal article came out in the beginning of its rise to fame. As a fellow needle-hater, Elizabeth was easy to empathize with. Her mission was my mission. Over the years, positive news about Theranos was popping up everywhere. When the pinprick testing at Walgreens started, I signed up. Giddily, I drove to a Walgreens at Palo Alto, only to have the most painful blood testing experience ever. The nurse had to squeeze my finger intensely to ooze out the blood. Not fun, not going through this again. The test results were all over the map. I discarded them and got another test done the old-fashioned way. Lucky for me.

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