The Quantified Patient Checks In: Larry Smarr?s Experiments in Self-Tracking for Health

Like eight-year-olds who can't let go of a good joke, Larry Smarr's nurses and doctors kept coming to him with the same question: "Have you passed gas yet?" Answering this question in the aff irmative is, Smarr explains, deadpan, "the state of the art in 2017 in the medical community for deciding when your colon restarts".