This is getting too easy.
FRANKIE13 (for the sake of our nation's health I pray that you're an LPN and not a RN) inadvertently but brilliantly articulates the deep thinking going on in the minds of CCSI fans everywhere. In medicine (am I speaking slowly enough for you?), there happens to be an important distinction between a colorimetric assay, a clinical sign and a clinical diagnosis. Unfortunately, these apparently trivial concepts somehow become fused together when our heroes try to defend the capabilities and attributes of the Colormate System. Ignorance, however, is no defense for stupidity.
Cyanosis, to use your example, is a clinical sign or manifestation --- NOT a disease (no one dies from cyanosis, just the disease that causes it). More precisely, cyanosis is not a "chromogenic disease" but simply a qualitative observation. If CCSI wants to start quantifying it, however, they should knock themselves out. I'll stick with pulse oximetry (a photoelectric measurement of oxygen saturation, Frankie), and blood gas measurements.
I might further add that it was CCSI who proposed diagnosing or monitoring such conditions as hepatitis, tuberculosis of "forms of malignancy" (whatever this means) with their technology, not some heinous short. Perhaps you guys should beam back to your mother ship for a little chat with Captain Darby.
Bradpalm1 |
