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wow the hypochondriacs are going to go nuts with this. I feel bad for medical professionals.
LOL, there isn't near the level of that that you seem to think going on. If someone makes a one time trip to a doc over an Apple Watch abnormal EKG reading and they find out it's benign, I think that's wonderful. Because proactive people are better than reactive people!

I guess on the surface I'd rather be seen a hypochrondiac and actively looking to cut problems off at the head and go to the doctor somewhat regularly (2-3 a year) and get appropriate testing if need be than be an idiot who never goes to the doctor or never reports symptoms and then wonders why they missed stages 1, 2, and 3 of cancer, finding out that it's everywhere and now they have 3 months to live. Just because they didn't want to go be it they hate doctors or they thought they were being an alarmist. With all respect, F that. I'll go to the doctor and get a clean bill of health over a concern I have than do that. The amount who are severly affected by hypochrondriasis aren't as plentiful as you think. Still, better safe than sorry. We aren't talking about people with Munchausen's Syndrome or being histrionic to get attention or pills.

Mostly, it's just people taking their health seriously because once you lose it, everything ceases to matter. And Apple Watch has saved lives.
 
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