Extreme DIY

[djohnflatfeecfp]

An advisor I know recently shared a story of the biggest do-it-yourself investor I have ever heard.  Short version - Potential client asked him to create a financial plan.  He created a few different versions including one specific iteration she asked for, which was all annuities.  Once she saw the outcome she thanked him and headed out the door without ever taking possession of the plan (never paid him either).  He later learned she went and acquired her insurance licenses and bought about $2 million in annuities through herself for herself.  Not sure if she kept the commissions or waived them.

 

I wonder if she makes her own soap and laundry detergent?

[q-school]

I have a patient who built his own Ekg machine and carries it around with him.

[CordMcNally]

I feel like home blood pressures machines are already one of the banes of my existence in the ED. I can't imagine the general public having access to an EKG at their whim's desire.

[SValleyMD]

Fit bitters are trying to take on the home bp measurers

Can't tell u how many "my heart was just racing on my fit bit" that I got over the last year

[Zaphod]

SValleyMD wrote:

Fit bitters are trying to take on the home bp measurers

Can’t tell u how many “my heart was just racing on my fit bit” that I got over the last year

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Mine is the opposite, though Garmin not fitbit. Be sitting in my office, and go, ooh, just notched a 45 mid day sweet. Once wore it overnight just to see where it went, scary low.

[uptoolate]

Zaphod wrote:

SValleyMD wrote:

Fit bitters are trying to take on the home bp measurers

Can’t tell u how many “my heart was just racing on my fit bit” that I got over the last year

Click to expand…

Mine is the opposite, though Garmin not fitbit. Be sitting in my office, and go, ooh, just notched a 45 mid day sweet. Once wore it overnight just to see where it went, scary low.

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Students are currently learning about arryhthmias and I tell them about sitting at the nursing station at 4 am with the resident and comparing HRs.  The lifelong runner and the cyclist.  Both with resting heart rates in the upper 30s.  Don't even ask me what my heart rate was 30 minutes after I got snipped.  I was just happy that the clinic nurse didn't have a monitor on me or take my pulse.