Stethoscopes

deschutes · Apr 22, 2005

What did you - or will you - do with them? :idea:

DarksideAllstar · Apr 22, 2005

I think I will hang it in my future office, kind of a "Ghost of Clinical Medicine Past"-esque rememberance of my hatred of rounding for 8 hours post call. Either that or I'll sell it on eBay. yeah, thats the ticket.

bananaface · Apr 22, 2005

Give it to me so I don't have to buy one!!!!!!!

I just thought of a hilarious troll thread idea. Sadly, it's really a question that popped into my mind.

"Do stethoscopes come in bigger sizes for people with really big heads?" :laugh:

b&ierstiefel · Apr 22, 2005

gave mine to roommate. as an anesthesiologist, i think he'll need it more than i ever will.

deschutes · Apr 22, 2005

AndyMilonakis said:
gave mine to roommate. as an anesthesiologist, i think he'll need it more than i ever will.

If he's an anesthesiologist, why doesn't he have one of his own?

bananaface · Apr 22, 2005

deschutes said:
If he's an anesthesiologist, why doesn't he have one of his own?

He does now.

deschutes · Apr 22, 2005

Does he have four ears? 😉

b&ierstiefel · Apr 22, 2005

1. he has one but it sucked and then to top it off, he lost it.
2. no, he has 2 ears.
3. i gave my steth to him cuz i was feeling generous that day...oh the other part of the deal was that he buy me sushi.

bananaface · Apr 22, 2005

deschutes said:
If he's an anesthesiologist, why doesn't he have one of his own?

He does now.

beary · Apr 22, 2005

deschutes said:
What did you - or will you - do with them?

I have an entire year to ponder this question.

deschutes · Apr 22, 2005

AndyMilonakis said:
1. he has one but it sucked and then to top it off, he lost it.
2. no, he has 2 ears.

My brain read that as "he sucked ears" :laugh:

I wonder if one's previously-honed skill at detecting bibasilar creps decreases with decreasing exposure.

b&ierstiefel · Apr 22, 2005

deschutes said:
My brain read that as "he sucked ears"

interesting

I wonder if one's previously-honed skill at detecting bibasilar creps decreases with decreasing exposure.

oh, you must be studying for step 2.

beary · Apr 22, 2005

deschutes said:
My brain read that as "he sucked ears"

I read it that he had only one sucky ear when he subsequently lost. :laugh:

b&ierstiefel · Apr 22, 2005

well seeing how you are interpreting my already said comments, i'm glad i left out the part about him owning a 4-assed kitten for a pet.

deschutes · Apr 22, 2005

AndyMilonakis said:
well seeing how you are interpreting my already said comments, i'm glad i left out the part about him owning a 4-assed kitten for a pet.

Do you mean a young cat, or a young girl?

b&ierstiefel · Apr 22, 2005

deschutes said:
Do you mean a young cat, or a young girl?

yeah, he likes keeping wimmen around as pets.

wimmen.

cytoborg · Apr 23, 2005

deschutes said:
What did you - or will you - do with them?

My dog ate mine. Literally. Looked down and there it was, all over the floor in little bits.

A fitting end for it, I'd say.

yaah · Apr 23, 2005

Mine is somewhere in a bag somewhere in a closet. Every now and then I will probably pull it out to check if I have a heart murmur.

bananaface · Apr 23, 2005

cytoborg said:
My dog ate mine. Literally. Looked down and there it was, all over the floor in little bits.

A fitting end for it, I'd say.

I thought we were still on kittens for a minute. 😳

beary · Apr 23, 2005

yaah said:
Mine is somewhere in a bag somewhere in a closet. Every now and then I will probably pull it out to check if I have a heart murmur.

I do this too. :laugh:

Not that I would be able to tell if I had a heart murmur or not.

b&ierstiefel · Apr 23, 2005

If I had a murmur, I wouldn't hear it because I wouldn't wanna hear it and I would convince myself that it wasn't there.

yaah · Apr 23, 2005

I am the opposite. I keep listening, and eventually start to hear something faint. I can't convince myself it is anymore than I/VI though, and probably just normal flow I am picking up. Or I'm imagining things. I can also split my S2.

b&ierstiefel · Apr 23, 2005

I am RRR S1 S2 no m/r/g.

yaah · Apr 23, 2005

We better get an echo to rule out endocarditis then.

Whisker Barrel Cortex · Apr 23, 2005

I 've got mine hanging on my thermostat as decoration:

b&ierstiefel · Apr 23, 2005

That's the same kind I have...I mean had :laugh:

deschutes · Apr 23, 2005

Are those the one-sided ones? I never understood that. So what's all this talk about low-pitched sounds with the diaphragm 🙄

b&ierstiefel · Apr 23, 2005

Yeah...they're the one-sided ones. Bell and diaphragm on the same side. One can switch from one mode to another by pressing firmly or pressing lightly.

It's a load of crap. Whenever I needed to hear low frequency heart sounds, I would just borrow one of the normal two-sided stethoscopes.

I've heard an S4 only 3 times in my life. Never heard an S3...and I never will.

deschutes · Apr 23, 2005

AndyMilonakis said:
I've heard an S4 only 3 times in my life. Never heard an S3...and I never will.

They kept talking about a gallop on Thursday. I listened during walk-rounds and went back and listened again later in the afternoon. Heard an odd S1, but no gallop.

Heard a very cool squeak (my own invented term - and the resident couldn't disagree) on a lady with RHF and edema NYD.

yaah · Apr 23, 2005

Wow, you keep your place pretty warm! If you looked at mine when I was here by myself it would probably be at 63 - 65. If others are over I turn it up as a preemptive measure for the inevitable complaints.

b&ierstiefel · Apr 23, 2005

yaah said:
Wow, you keep your place pretty warm! If you looked at mine when I was here by myself it would probably be at 63 - 65. If others are over I turn it up as a preemptive measure for the inevitable complaints.

well maybe he's hypothyroid. you should donate some of your T4 to him.

Whisker Barrel Cortex · Apr 23, 2005

I usually keep it 70-75. I like sitting around in T-shirts and boxers when no one is around, even when its -10 outside. Hope that wasn't TMI.

Jeezus, 62-65 is fricking cold dude.

yaah · Apr 23, 2005

Sometimes I turn the heat up when I am really hungry or tired and get cold.

b&ierstiefel · Apr 23, 2005

yaah said:
Sometimes I turn the heat up when I am really hungry or tired and get cold.

I'm really stahvin right now and it's cold outside. I am upset.

beary · Apr 23, 2005

yaah said:
Sometimes I turn the heat up when I am really hungry or tired and get cold.

Alternatively you could eat. :laugh:

bananaface · Apr 23, 2005

yaah said:
Wow, you keep your place pretty warm! If you looked at mine when I was here by myself it would probably be at 63 - 65. If others are over I turn it up as a preemptive measure for the inevitable complaints.

People who complain about that need to wear more clothes. :laugh:

Are you bring over half naked women again, yaah?

bananaface · Apr 23, 2005

Whisker Barrel Cortex said:
I usually keep it 70-75. I like sitting around in T-shirts and boxers when no one is around, even when its -10 outside. Hope that wasn't TMI.

Jeezus, 62-65 is fricking cold dude.

TMI? In path? :laugh:

Good one.

deschutes · Apr 24, 2005

Whisker Barrel Cortex said:
I usually keep it 70-75. I like sitting around in T-shirts and boxers when no one is around, even when its -10 outside. Hope that wasn't TMI.

Jeezus, 62-65 is fricking cold dude.

I agree with all of the above 😎 I was in a 62-65 house recently. I wanted to wrap myself in fleece and never come out again. I could have sworn it was warmer outside.

Whisker Barrel Cortex · Apr 24, 2005

bananaface said:
TMI? In path?

Good one.

I am just a radiologist visiting this foreign land you call pathology. I do not yet know your ways and customs.

deschutes · Apr 24, 2005

Out of curiosity I Googled "whisker/barrel cortex". I will never again underestimate the importance of whiskers to a mouse. 😱

b&ierstiefel · Apr 24, 2005

deschutes, you need a hobby.

deschutes · Apr 24, 2005

Hmm. I guess I could take my laptop into the garden.

yaah · Apr 24, 2005

That may not solve the problem! :laugh:

deschutes · Apr 24, 2005

Dammit my whisker/barrel cortex post is doomed to languish at the bottom of the previous page. It's all Andy's fault 😛

deschutes · Apr 24, 2005

yaah said:
That may not solve the problem!

Oooh ooh! Shall I paint my nails Cherry Rain or Rose Whisper??

b&ierstiefel · Apr 24, 2005

life isn't fair. deal with it.

yaah · Apr 24, 2005

You know, I actually thought the name was whiskey barrel cortex, not whisker. Interesting how my scanning way of reading can sometimes fail me.

bananaface · Apr 24, 2005

deschutes said:
Oooh ooh! Shall I paint my nails Cherry Rain or Rose Whisper??

Rose Whisper.

b&ierstiefel · Apr 25, 2005

Other options that should be entertained are:

Baby Green
Classic Brown
Nut-n-Corn Crunch

(can anyone name the reference?)

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