>How many ECGs can you sell vs how many other snake-oil products?

A lot, probably. You could sell people on the idea that it should be a part of your yearly health screening.

"And if you really care about your health you should do them every 3 months to catch problems early!"

or some such.

> "And if you really care about your health you should do them every 3 months to catch problems early!"

When I moved to Houston just after law school, I found a doctor and made an appointment to get a routine physical exam; I hadn't had one since getting out of the Navy three years earlier.

Doctor: So what brings you here?

Me: A triennial physical exam.

Doctor (incredulously): You get a physical exam three times a year?

Me: No ....

This will work short-term sure, but after about lets say, 3 years of no adverse findings, the average person will not take it seriously anymore.

Huh? I get a blood panel every year and 90% of the things it looks for are normal year after year. But there is always 1 or 2 things flagged that I need to pay attention to.

An ECG if it was just part of the normal yearly panel of things that get looked at I don't think ppl will stop doing it just because it doesn't find something right away

> the average person

I do not consider the average HN commenter to be average.

What does that have to do anything. The recommendation is to do a blood panel every year I don’t see anything worse about adding ecg to that

Nobody said anything is worse. Half this thread is satire. But on a serious note. ECG is really time prohibitive, drawing 3ml of blood is relatively quick, and doesn't require specialist training like an ECG does.

Whistle: Hope you didn't burn those arteries there mate :)

Poe's law in a full swing.

I didn't know... Thank you

You can still sell snake oil that's purported to improve ECGs.

We should talk, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em :)