Yea absolutely 100% go a route that you know will be allowed first. But keep this in your back pocket just in case, because if it’s an option and if plan A doesn’t work out for some reason, you know that it exists. Hope everything goes well!
If you get one, lmk I would love to try it if you are willing
I’ve used digital stethoscopes before and they’re really great. But with digital-only ones like the one Littmann makes it’s frustrating because there can be a lot of noise and you can’t turn it off and just listen. The Eko lets you do either digital or analogue which is good, and they often have sales so it’s around $150 or sometimes less I think. DrMooreStudentVet on Instagram and Facebook is a student ambassador for them and I’ve talked to him before about it. You could try reaching out if you have questions about it before getting it.
So neither of you are here, but they gave our entire class ekos for the white coat ceremony. They are super cool and really awesome but after a while most of us stopped charging them and never really use them because I at least want to hear things on a normal stethoscope first before getting enhanced. I should probably charge the thing though, and use it
That’s what’s nice about it though. If it dies, you still have your regular stethoscope in analogue mode.
I'll be there in December!
Come visit!!!! Make sure to say hi!
Having used the digital Littmann and then done a lot of research on the Eko, the quality seems to be very similar as far as the benefit you get of a digital stethoscope. However, the Eko is a good bit cheaper (about half the price), and it has the benefit of being able to turn it off and use it as an analogue stethoscope. So if you feel like you don’t need the amplification or recording feature and you’re getting a lot of noise from, say, a dog panting or an owner petting their pet, you can turn off the digital feature so all of that isn’t amplified as well. I think that in and of itself makes the Eko a lot better. If your Littmann does you just don’t have a stethoscope. If the Eko dies you still have a perfectly good stethoscope until you charge it again. I also found that digital stethoscopes don’t work well on some patients where there’s an added gap between their fur and their skin. Like really fluffy dogs. So being able to choose either analogue or digital is good.
I just need to put in a quick plug for Eko's customer service! We'd called and left a message on the weekend saying that we had some questions. They called me back this morning, bright and early CA time, answered all my questions, are sending me an email with more detailed answers to some of the things I'd been asking about, and gave me a discount code. There's also a 30 day money back guarantee, no questions asked, if it doesn't work for me for some reason. Even before trying the product I have to say that I'm impressed with the company so far.
Aannd the email just arrived. It's been less than half an hour since we talked!
Ok this kind of customer service that goes above and beyond is rare and speaks volumes. Nice.
Their hearts are really in the right place at that company and really hear potential customers
You've always got a future in marketing if you ever get tired of the vetwork
Clearly should just drop out of school now while my debt is only one years worth and go into marketing instead
I'm really happy that things are finally starting to look up for you! Congrats on the job!
Second place only to raspberries in my world 🙂
Please come to my work. My coworker has about 20 feet of raspberry bushes at her house and she cant even find enough people to give the raspberries to so they’re all just rotting now. She already brought in a couple huge bowls but my GI system can’t handle all these berries. It’s awful at this point.
Nectarines are my absolute favorite, but raspberries are up there! I'll occasionally make a homemade raspberry jam danish braid for people when I'm feeling particularly grateful for something they've done for me. (Raspberry jam swirl brownies are also on that list!)
I have a decent patch myself, and they're really proliferating this year. Not just the number of blossoms, but so many new plants springing up around the established patch 🙂
You can't tell a cute story like that and not post a cat photo.
Post is useless without pictures
This gives me ALL the happy feels
I will take all the raspberries!!!
No. You must share. I was invited. You are just tagging along, apparently 😛
I live much closer, easier access. 😛
At the risk of making myself have to pull a map out, where are you and @ajs513 ? I'm close to some places... (also fast driver lol)
I’m in philly! Aren’t you in Canada?
I always forget what people outside of the NJ tri-state area consider “close.” To me, anything over an hour or two away is practically on a different continent.
I live less than an hour away from him and I’ve already met him in person. 🙂
Darn it! lol I'm still open to sharing the bounty....
I am SO JEALOUS
This is one of the cutest things I've ever heard and I may be crying a little
Meanwhile, anything less than 6 hours away is a reasonable short visit trip for me...
It sounds crazy, but ask anyone from this area of the country and they’ll say the same thing! Towns are so close together that it only takes 15 minutes to get most places. 30 if you’re really desperate to get somewhere.
I can drive 30 minutes and still be in the same damn town
My hometown is like this
That’s what’s so different about this area. A town in south jersey is only about a square mile or so. Some are even smaller. If you go on google maps and look around Illinois you’ll see spots of a large town or a city with roads leading to other large towns, and for miles in between it’s farms and a few really small towns. If you look at south jersey it’s a bunch of small towns butting up against each other to form a big mass of people. So when you grow up there, you have in 10 square miles what most places in the country have in 10 times that space.
