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Should everyone be monitoring their health?

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Should everyone be monitoring their health?

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Mark Smith, MD, president of the California Healthcare Foundation, thinks a lot of experts overestimate the number of patients who are obsessed with health data. He explains the limitations of constant health monitoring.

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