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The ZDoggMD Show

How The New Apple Watch Might Harm Us

The ZDoggMD Show

ZDoggMD LLC

Spirituality, Medicine, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment do more than cost $$$... they harm patients while overtaxing the system. How might the new Apple Watch impact this? Join the SuperPac on FB! http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/ZDOGGMD Check out the video and transcript here: zdoggmd.com/incident-report-184 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What's up ZPackets? You boys EWGMD. Check it out. I did a show recently on the Apple Watch. I did it live,

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sort of rambling response. My first draft response to Apple's announcement that the new Apple Watch contains a built-in FDA approved over the

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count of the new Apple Watch.

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The new Apple Watch contains a built-in FDA approved over the count of the

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EKG monitor, where if you put your finger on the little dial, the other electrode is on the skin,

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you get a one-lead EKG that can, according to the algorithm and Apple marketing,

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diagnose atrial fibrillation, which is an irregular heart rate.

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Now, at the time I talked about the pros and cons of this, I want to get just briefly into that again in a bite-sized

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shareable way. I'm going to talk about the pros and cons of this. I want to get just briefly into that again in a bite-sized

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shareable way. Here's the danger of this device. There are probably tons of people, especially younger people,

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who would buy an Apple Watch, who would find out through the screening that they have an

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intermittent natural fibrillation. In other words, short runs of this or whatever. And the device, if it's sensitive enough,

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will pick this up. Now, in the real world, we would never, ever even find this, because people don't have

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symptoms. They're oxygen-free. They're not oxygen-free. They're not oxygen-free. They're not oxygen-free.

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Their systems. Their oxygen levels are fine. Their blood pressure is fine. And it goes away. And it may be that a lot of the

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population maybe has some element of this. Now, what happens when you put a watch on that screens for this? Well, now people

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are alerted to it, which means they either get panicked, they start to stress, it creates anxiety, they call 9-1-1.

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