Originally Posted by
patentcad
Oh yeah, I can see the look on my doctor's face when I go in for my standard bloodwork when I say 'by the way could you get them to put my blood sample in a centrifuge so they can measure my hemocrit level'. What possible medical rationale is there for such a test if you're not using EPO and you're trying to avoid DEATH?
Uh...no. It's actually a very routine test that they're supposed to do every year. All your hematocrit is, is the number of red blood cells times hemoglobin (the things inside red blood cells that transport oxygen) per blood volume. It's actually a very innocuous measurement.