[vo2maxer]

What you’re saying is that evidence should not drive decisions in health care but rather industry marketing. And if this what you mean, how is it quackery to suggest that more studies are needed or that users need to be given more information on devices with such a significant rate of false-positives?

[htk]

You deformed his “humble opinion” into something completely different. There are other ways to expose your views, this one just looks like you have an axe to grind.

[vo2maxer]

Please, explain to me how I deformed it when they label “all doctor talk” of the “inversion of the relationship between patients and physicians” as quackery without any reasoned argument to support such “humble opinion.” The position in the original submission is straight forward: The study was funded by Apple to drive sales by people who generally don’t suffer with atrial fibrillation. Consequently, this will create unnecessary alarm in the worried well, who will undergo needless testing and possibly harmful therapy. There is already plenty of superfluous medical evaluations and treatments at a huge cost. Are we supposed to encourage this when it is clearly industry driven with little evidence in how it advances healthcare. If this is my ax to grind, so be it, but as a physician, shouldn’t I be cynically happy that more business will be coming my way?