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I agree with you that the Fundamental Attribution Error typically wins the day. If people are making a mistake, find the systemic solution. But, it's critical to include Education as one of the potential components. If false readings are always a possibility, the alternative to expecting people to double check results is that we don't allow devices like this on the market.


>the alternative to expecting people to double check results is that we don't allow devices like this on the market.

Excellent, to avoid killing a few people a year, you've killed thousands.

If you're not a diabetic or if you have no medical experience around this kind of device, kindly butt out and mind your own business. Low blood sugar in the middle of the night is an immediately deadly condition that needs treatment or the patient can end up with brain swelling. It's also not a condition that will wake the person experiencing it up. Having a CGM blare and alarm has saved countless people and given them a far better life from better sleep, less anxiety, and not randomly dying while resting.

Every CGM comes with directions telling you to calibrate the unit often and do blood stick tests to ensure the unit is working properly. Any diabetic should also be under the care of an endocrinologist as it's a complicated and deadly disease with lots of terrible ramifications.


They simply stated that that is the alternative. They did not say that that is what should be done.


Thanks. It's frustrating to be completely misunderstood, and I appreciate hearing from someone who was able to follow the nuance.




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