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yeah this is uh this is interesting
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story that uh Leander kind of fished
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this out of a Washington was post uh
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Wall Street Journal story uh talking
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about how doctors are recommending
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people that that recommend that people
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wear Apple watches they're increasingly
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using it as a way to monitor People's
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Health right well one of the little
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details in this thing is there's this
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Dutch Doctor Who uh says says that it
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can that the Apple watch unlike you know
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Apple says this is a can't do this right
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but this Dutch doctor says hey watch can
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detect a leading cause of heart
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attacks and he is encouraging people to
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study whether or not this can be used um
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I just give the brief brief background
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on this right so this is a doctor named
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I I believe it's a rude ruu D coaster
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cardiologist from Amsterdam he
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accidentally discovered that he had a
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potentially fatal heart blockage that
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caused myocardial esea that's just
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that's when your heart doesn't get
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enough oxygen and blood uh he so he
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wrote a paper about his experience now
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recommends the Apple watch be studied
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for its ability to alert wearers about
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potentially deadly heart blockage and
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the the weird thing about this is this
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guy you know he had a like a history of
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family you know a family history of
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heart disease and he was on I believe
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drugs for um for cholesterol yeah but he
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didn't think like oh oh crap I'm having
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a heart attack he he went to the gym and
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afterwards he just sat down for some
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reason he decided Well I'm going to
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check my ECG and he did it a couple of
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times and he and he looks at he notices
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that you know of course he's he's a
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cardiologist right so he understands
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this stuff and this is one reason I'm
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sure that Apple doesn't advertise this
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as a feature right because you have to
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be like a cardiologist to look at this
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and say wow look this is weird this this
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is showing that I've got a you know
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major blockage in my in my uh arteries
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and so you know he he he had no chest
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pain or nothing like that
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um he just like by accident almost using
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his Apple watch discovered he had this
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you know potentially deadly thing this
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causes supposedly like more than a
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million deaths in uh United States per
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year wow right that's according to
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Cleveland Clinic
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um So Co cooster said it works and this
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this is this is from his paper the use
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for detecting myocardial esema is not
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endorsed by Apple but is documented in
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this case documented he said before
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during and after the episode he uh he
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talking about the the doctor he was
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completely asymptomatic for chest pain
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shortness of breath disne iser
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palpitations but the Apple watch noticed
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this weird thing and you know this weird
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like way that his heart responded after
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this exercise and uh I don't know it's
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pretty interesting story um I I love the
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way that the Apple watch watches all
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this stuff in the background one of the
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things that I think Leander was talking
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about or somebody was saying like well
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maybe you know if if Apple can like
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fine-tune an algorithm that could spot
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that kind of thing right I mean that's
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that's a problem right like you this guy
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noticed it because he's a cardiologist
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so I
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mean it was kind of mind-blowing I'm
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used to these stories of of people
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having atrial fibrillation uh spotted by
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Apple watch and that causes them to go
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to the doctor and get checked out this
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is like a and that's basically the main
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use case for the Apple watch right the
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main way that it has that we've seen it
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saving people's lives but this is uh
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this is a pretty interesting one and and
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just it it
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basically it shows what it's capable of
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and what Apple I mean for whatever
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reason Apple doesn't probably even have
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the time and and money to go and get
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things sort of FDA approved for all
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these different sort of off off Lael
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uses
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but it's it's it's like it's more
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powerful than than you might know is is
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what I'm saying it's more powerful than
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they can say yeah yes yeah so an
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interesting story yeah that's kind of
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cool in my opinion if and if you're a
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cardiologist you can just self diagnose
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so that's handy all cardiologist share
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all that stuff with doctors you know
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doctors can see it and
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uh I don't know I'm a big fan tell you
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if you're about feel I should do an ECG
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right now you are awful sweaty you feel
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okay I get you into of those cook cloths
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just to dab just segment of the podcast
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