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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 March 2016 09:21:54PM 0 points [-]

It's especially tricky to take a temperature with a thermometer while you sleep .

In his book he speculates that the reason that all the other doctors hate the idea is that they can't charge patients for taking their own readings!

There's certainly economic pressure for a doctor to order a blood test and the test getting written into standard care guidelines but not for costant self-measurement of temperature.

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