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to my knowledge, there have been "incidents" that have raised questions to sharon mitchell/aim concerning the accuracy of the tests that are administered at aim facilities.


I don't think the tests are done at AIM? It would be hard for them to get a license to do it. I thought AIM merely collected samples to be tested elsewhere.

Someone has to collect an uncontaminated, correctly-labeled sample and send it to a lab that puts it in a PCR machine with the right reagents and settings, etc. The test itself is highly accurate in a theoretical sense – it's the human error component that is the problem.




the samples that are collected by aim are NOT tested by aim. to my knowledge, aim has a contract healthline clinical laborotories (burbank, ca). aim collects the samples, submits the samples to healthline, healthline tests the samples and submits the results to aim.

aim is willingly under contract with healthline, therefore if these "incidents" appear to lie within the lab then why does aim continue to maintain their contract with this certain lab?

in my opinion, your statement, "it's the human error component that is the problem" carries 100% validity.


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Hospitals and doctors kill people all the time with these kinds of errors. AIM might be sloppier than some, but don't assume there's anywhere you can go that won't have these problems.




there will be errors within any medical facitlity; there is no way around error within doctors, testing procedures, test results, etc.