Eventually they will have a device that will attach to a phone or ipad and it will display all relevant physiological information. I started checking blood pressure, heart rate, etc. There's a couple of my friends that take pills and we're the same age. I don't want to get into that loop where you're taking pills and going to doctors all the time. There's no way I could handle that. No pills, no serial medical dramas. I hate making appointments. I really hate waiting rooms. And I don't take pills unless I'm not sure what they really are and I buy them from a disreputable source in an alley.
Given the state of affairs with the US healthcare arrangement, it seems prudent to take on some of the..uh...I guess...risk management myself. Besides, I have never in my life been to a doctor that did anything for me that I couldn't have done myself if I had a prescription pad. Typically, you go to a clinic, the doctor spends five minutes looking at the paperwork without making eye contact, tells you, condescendingly, that you have a viral infection and then writes a prescription for antibiotics. Any injuries I've had were repaired by nurses and then blessed and billed by a doctor who I never even met. Apparently we do have Blue Cross...I'm sure it's the shitty package and I'm sure dealing with them is far worse than any illness or infirmity that will befall me. So...as Jesus said to the Hebrews...."Physician heal thyself !" . I'm taking that literally. Fck Obamacare.