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On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:51:07 +0100, D wrote:

> A doctor criticized it for being unreliable, and saying that you'll
> always get some kind of alarm or trigger, and that having loads of these
> cabinets will overflow the healthcare system by anxious millionaires and
> billionaires for what in the end turned out to be nothing.

Many dentists have started taking the patient's blood pressure as part of 
the exam. For convenience they use the cuffs that go around your wrist 
that are very prone to reading high. My doctor says she gets referrals 
from dentists that have perfectly normal BP.

I got a Fitbit last year and it's fairly useful for keeping track of my 
walks but I don't pay much attention to the rest of the features. On the 
fitbit subreddit there are a surprising number of people that head to the 
emergency room every time a $100 device has a glitch. For example it has 
an ECG function. I get random results, normal sinus rhythm, inconclusive, 
or atrial fibrillation. Somehow I trust the type with all the patches 
stuck to your chest hair to holding both sides of a glorified wristwatch 
between your thumb and forefinger.