I walked behind a nurse into the doctor’s office.

“Shoes off please and stand on the scale so I can measure your weight and height” she said in monotone, clearly excited to be taking a reading for the hundredth time that day.

I complied; she read the results to me.

“Are you certain?” I asked “That height measurement seems off by a factor…”

She shrugged and started to turn away “Oh, a lot of people say our scale is wrong.”

When a health care provider has a hard time calibrating height I am tempted to question how they measure dosages and other more important metrics, let alone privacy controls.