
billofmaterials

(Dis)assembling the bill-of-materials list for measuring blood pressure on the wrist
More than a decade ago, I visited my local doctor’s office, suffering from either kidney stone or back-spasm pain (I don’t recall which; at the time, it could have been either, or both, for that matter). As usual, the assistant logged my height and weight on the hallway scale, then my blood pressure in the…