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Blood pressure, BP, measurements are easily taken at home with a portable machine purchased at the drug store. Patients who should monitor their numbers are told by doctors to take their BP regularly. But when hypertension runs in the family, taking those measurements can become the center of medical camaraderie and reveal a lot more than what the home unit's digital screen shows you.
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Blood pressure, BP, measurements are easily taken at home with a portable machine purchased at the drug store. Patients who should monitor their numbers are told by doctors to take their BP regularly. But when hypertension runs in the family, taking those measurements can become the center of medical camaraderie and reveal a lot more than what the home unit's digital screen shows you.
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Joshua McNichols
Posted on December 10, 2007 at 06:56 AM | Permalink
Review of BP
I enjoyed this, but thought it would have benefited form a slightly slower pace. I felt like it needed a little more room to breathe. The narrator's voice is excellent, but could use a little bit more variation throughout the course of the piece to show a greater range of feeling and break up the length.
Also, I wasn't quite convinced by the music, it tended to distract me. I think that introducing the music more deliberately at limited strategic points would help this piece.