I think one commercial is dangerous. You don’t get a “medical grade EKG” by putting two fingers on a $99 device hooked to your phone. You get one by seeing a real doctor and getting about a dozen electrodes attached to your body and running a machine that costs thousands of dollars. So it detects bradycardia and tachycardia. That’s your fucking pulse rate and you can check that yourself with a watch with a second hand. Putting your faith in this cheap imitation is like playing Russian Roulette.
I think you’re referring to the commercial for the KardiaMobile device. I assume the idea is that if it suggests an abnormal rhythm that you should follow up with an appointment with your physician.
Presumably it’d also detect an irregular pulse, which might be slightly harder, at least for a person with a poor sense of rhythm,
Temu Elisabeth Holmes 
It ( and the Apple Watch ) also detect episodes of Superventricular tachycardia. Which I had apparently been having for years, just never when I was wearing the heart monitor that I wore for a week or two , once or twice a year for at least six years. Only got diagnosed when I had an episode bad enough to call an ambulance and the paramedics were able to get an EKG while the episode was still going on. If I had had one of those devices I probably would have been diagnosed and treated years earlier.
I think Elisabeth Holmes is Temu Elisabeth Holmes.
I can see that being useful but I’m more concerned with people using the device and thinking they’re fine because they have a condition that the device doesn’t screen for. It’s the term “medical grade EKG” that I think is misleading and dangerous.
A few years ago I was diagnosed with tachycardia and A-fib and my cardiologist recommended that I get a KardiaMobile device so I could monitor my heart activity. For a long time my heartrate almost always was in the 90s and I would occasionally get a “possible Afib” reading. When I got the Afib warning I would lie down for a while and then check again, and usually I would then get a normal sinus rhythm notice. Then one night after I went to bed I could feel my heart pounding so I pulled out the tester. Heartrate was 153 with possible Afib, so I called 911. After a day or two in the hospital I was deemed fine to go back home. I credit the device with saving my life.
For the last year my Afib and heartrate seems to have settled down. My cardiologist now feels he only needs to see me every six months. My EKGs have been normal (we won’t discuss all the other health issues that have popped up in the past six months). For a while I had thought about upgrading to their deluxe version, but unless things change heartwise I’m happy to have it as a check.
Clear captions phone thingy.
Apparently for hearing impaired elderly.
First off. It’s increasing in showings lately.
Isn’t that Buffy from Family Affair as the lead?
Couldn’t be. Actress Anissa Jones, who played Buffy, died in 1976.
Sure looks like her
It’s Cathy Garver, who played Buffy’s older sister Cissy. As @Spoons notes, Anissa Jones died at age 18, of a drug overdose.
Ahhh. Cissy, yes. Sorry for the confusion.