I did this for the doctor, and my pressure readings were much better at home, which should be no surprise. They asked me to bring in the machine to check it aga

I did this for the doctor, and my pressure readings were much better at home, which should be no surprise. They asked me to bring in the machine to check it against their own measurements. It takes three readings a minute apart, and then does its calculations to produce the numbers. After the first cycle, the assistant wanted nothing to do with it, and started fiddling with the machine in annoyance to get it to do whatever she wanted. There was not even a discussion about it. There must have been many other sides of beef in the office that she had to hurry to poke and prod as fast as possible. And what do you know, I think that visit produced the highest blood pressure they had seen in me yet. I think that was the same visit I had to point out that their fridge with blood samples in it wasn't closed fully. The doctor made it a point to stop and ask me if something was bothering me that visit because my frustration at how bad US general practice had become was obvious.