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A wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) device is an effective tool for managing cardiovascular diseases. This paper presents a low power clinician-like cardiac arrhythmia watchdog (CAW) for wearable ECG devices. The CAW is based on a novel P-QRS-T detection algorithm that makes use of clinical features to identify abnormalities. Implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS process, the CAW consumes 2.66 µW for 80 bpm heart rate at 1.2 V supply with an area of 0.578 mm2. Verified on QT database, the average sensitivity/positive predictivity for P-wave, QRS complex and T-wave are over 93.39%/88.55%, 99.69%/99.48%, and 97.13%/93.18% respectively, across over 190000 beats. It shows over 99.8% arrhythmia detection accuracy for 43 subjects evaluated on MIT-BIH database.