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Michelle Au
Michelle Au is an anesthesiologist at Emory-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta.
Ralph Orlowski / Reuters
Smartwatches Are Changing the Purpose of the EKG
Wearables help cast the medical test as a talisman of health-care competence.
An Object Lesson
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Andrew Bomback
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Michelle Au
February 17, 2019