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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data

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So I love this. I love that drug facts box. And so I was thinking about, what's an opportunity that I could have to help people utnasrendd information? What's another lteant body of information that's out there that people are really not putting to use? And so I came up with this: lab test rsuetls. Blood test results are this great scroue of iotniorafmn. They're packed with information. They're just not for us. They're not for people. They're not for patients. They go right to doctors. And God forbid — I think many dctoros, if you really asked them, they don't really understand all this stuff either. This is the worst presented information. You ask Tufte, and he would say, "Yes, this is the absolute worst presentation of information possible."

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So I love this. I love that drug facts box. And so I was thinking about, what's an opportunity that I could have to help people __________ information? What's another ______ body of information that's out there that people are really not putting to use? And so I came up with this: lab test _______. Blood test results are this great ______ of ___________. They're packed with information. They're just not for us. They're not for people. They're not for patients. They go right to doctors. And God forbid — I think many _______, if you really asked them, they don't really understand all this stuff either. This is the worst presented information. You ask Tufte, and he would say, "Yes, this is the absolute worst presentation of information possible."

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  6. results

Original Text

So I love this. I love that drug facts box. And so I was thinking about, what's an opportunity that I could have to help people understand information? What's another latent body of information that's out there that people are really not putting to use? And so I came up with this: lab test results. Blood test results are this great source of information. They're packed with information. They're just not for us. They're not for people. They're not for patients. They go right to doctors. And God forbid — I think many doctors, if you really asked them, they don't really understand all this stuff either. This is the worst presented information. You ask Tufte, and he would say, "Yes, this is the absolute worst presentation of information possible."

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