Later he renamed it the stethoscope.

So even my stethoscope is now digital.

Does anybody know when the stethoscope was invented?

The doctor placed a stethoscope on the patient's chest.

And that is how stethoscope and auscultation was born.

And when I listened to her chest with a stethoscope,

So the handheld ultrasound is basically surpassing and supplanting the stethoscope.

And it was followed a year or two later by Laennec discovering the stethoscope.

The number of patients I have met in person, diagoniing with my stethoscope, listening to, is at least 6000.

And if you shortchange that ritual by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the nightgown, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient physician relationship.

But what I want to get to, the next frontier, very quickly, and why the stethoscope is on its way out, is because we can transcend listening to the valve sounds, and the breath sounds, because now, introduced by G.E. is a handheld ultra sound.

As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.

As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.