Posted by KaraS on July 5, 2005, at 18:17:06
I went to the doctor today. The nurse took my blood pressure with an automatic monitor. It showed a systolic pressure of 127, which is high for me. I was concerned about it so when I saw the doctor about 5 minutes later, he took a reading again with a manual monitor. This next time the systolic reading was 110. How can they be so different? There was no emotional issue that had changed in 5 minutes yet one shows a high reading that would indicate treatment is in order and the other shows a good, healthy reading. Why is that? The doctor said that the manual one is probably more accurate. Then why do they bother using the automatic ones?
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