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Re:Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his a... by khuey on Saturday July 27, 2019 @09:56AM (#20542042)
The problem with "just throwing tests at the wall" is that every test has a false positive rate. For rare diseases like this (~30 documented cases ever!) even tiny false positive rates will lead to significant over-diagnosis.
Re:Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his a... by amelius on Saturday July 27, 2019 @03:37PM (#20543716)
I suppose you rule out false positives by determining whether the combination of measurements could explain the symptoms.