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Smartwatches know you're getting a cold days before you feel ill
Once we had palm-reading, now we have smartwatches. Wearable tech can now detect when you’re about to fall ill, simply by tracking your vital signs.
Michael Snyder at Stanford University in California experienced this first-hand last year. For over a year he had been wearing seven sensors to test their reliability, when suddenly they began to show abnormal readings. Even though he felt fine, the sensors showed that his heart was beating faster than normal, his skin temperature had risen, and the level of oxygen in his blood had dropped.
“That’s what first alerted me that something wasn’t quite right,” says Snyder. He wondered whether he might have caught Lyme disease from a tick during a recent trip to rural Massachusetts.
A mild fever soon followed, and Snyder asked a doctor for the antibiotic doxycycline, which can be used to treat Lyme disease. His symptoms cleared within a day. Subsequent tests confirmed his self-diagnosis.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @05:31PM
yeah
i am glad other people think and feel the same way as me. this fuckhead should not have received antibiotics simply because he asked for them or even waved his watch saying the computer i programmed cannot lie, give me what I demand.
and the doctor should be punished publically and financially and a lesson be made out of him.
it doesnt matter if the guy was right--all the quacks seeking to cash in on such success will not be. fuck them both for abusing the system. an accidentally good outcome (not even a blood test--just a suspicion--and not even the doctor's suspicion!) doesn't condone any of this behavior. no one should be rewarded for this. both should be punished and then yeah since the results from the sensors seemed to indicate 'a problem' that actually had no means to determine what was actually wrong--it would be good to determine what else can be discovered in conditions leading up to all sorts of illnesses. trusting the patient's belief they need a specific medicine should not be tolerated this way.
smartphones are not wise. people need to be when using them to replace their smarts.