what did they tell you about why they were switching to part finger stick and part venipuncture? they just they didn t tell us. it just happened. we were told we would need to say this blanketed statement, due to the test that your physician ordered, we have to perform venipuncture to make sure that we had enough samples to perform the testing. would you like to proceed? that s it. did that surprise you? yeah, it surprised a lot of the technicians. it surprised a lot of the patients, the customers that were coming in too. some people expressed profanity, stormed out, demanded their money back. then during that whole transition to venipuncture, we had this big hiring boom, where i had to train 50 more employees because now we opened up our next ten wellness centers.
obviously they didn t want anybody to actually see what was going on in there. so, when we had demos, they would bring executives from some company to a room, which would have different styles of edison they were prototyping. they would do a finger stick on the executive. so, they would take a finger stick of blood. they would put the blood into the cartridge, and then they put the cartridge into this edison. they d walk the executives out of the room to give them a tour, to go have launch or whatever. and immediately after, an engineer would run in, grab the cartridge, run it to the lab, where my team would do the assays at the bench. we were on call, so this could be done within an hour. we got reasonable data every time. and then we would get those results. the engineer would run to the
so my question is, what percentage of your tests are needle rather than finger prick? i don t have a really good number for you because it s changing. and we re really confident being able to say that we re very close to 99% being capillary. but when you try to pinpoint a number are we talking about in the next five years, one year, two months? much less than a year without question. at the time, you didn t think that that was necessarily evidence of absolutely not. i actually believed her. chris, i remember her saying it to me, and and that s a lie, period. so after a year or so, we started to see the finger stick collection dwindle and more venipuncture increase. what did they tell you about why they were switching to part finger stick and part venipuncture? they just they didn t tell
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