Constant health monitoring does more harm than good

Dr. Ripujit Randhawa
Senior Resident
Department of Anatomy
Government Medical College
Amritsar, Punjab, India

 

We are living in the age of technology. Technological barriers are being broken almost every passing day, especially in the last two decades. These developments have far-reaching impacts across society, with their effects also permeating into medicine. The advent of a hybrid between technology, medicine, and hyper-capitalism has given rise to the phenomenon of commercialization of ‘healthy living. Indeed, the use of technology for unsupervised monitoring of body physiology can prove to be harmful.