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Doctors speaking to MIT Technology Review have told the magazine that patients who bring them reams of data generated by wearable fitness trackers are often a hinderance towards diagnosis and treatment. Oncologist Andrew Trister told MIT about his experiences with 'quantified self' patients, "They come in with these very large Excel spreadsheets, with all this information—I have no idea what to do with that," adding that it is difficult to interpret clinically meaningful trends from such a glut of non-contextual data. The article also notes how many people don't even know they can use their Fitbit or other health tracking devices for medical research. Nonetheless, Trister believes that wearables do have an application: targeting specific symptoms, such as skin conductance to measure stress levels, over more general trackers.