The cho see

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Thursday, October 27. 2005

The cho see


So I've spent almost three weeks on pediatric cardiology, shadowing away. I'm still pretty darn interested in doing pediatric cardiology. We'll see how that goes. Apartment life is fun, although definitely distracting now that I'm used to having my own place. I definitely don't have the same privacy sharing a room, but there's always someone to hang out with.

So I'm about to leave work when one of the cardiologists opens up a drawer and offers me a black market rappaport-sprauge stethoscope for $12. That was awesome. Turns out it wasn't illegal at all, sad to say, but it was a generic which runs about $15 retail. oh well. For you steth buffs out there, the R-S was made by hewlett-packard and originated back in the 1920s. It's still considered gold-standard by the old-school cardiologists, although the "modern" littmann steths are rapidly taking over, as they're lighter, sleeker, cooler-looking. Plus, HP got out of the steth business decades ago, and philips makes them now; retail $300. I think I'll stick with my littmann. Besides, buying three stethoscopes while in med school is crazy enough, but FOUR is just too much...

and yes, the l is missing.


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#1 - Kevin said:
2005-10-28 00:22 -

THREE?! You've bought THREE?! To have all three at once? Or as in Ashton having bought eight cell phones in the past four years? I can see one adult, one peds..... but the third?

#1.1 - Randall 2005-10-28 00:34 -

uhh... a mix. I lost the first. and the third was a dedicated peds one, I was in a pinch because I had left my peds conversion kit for my regular steth in norfolk... like I said, very sad. I'm kind of glad I did though, 'cuz the littmann blows the welch allen away. which is kind of weird, but it's pretty darn true. imo.

#2 - Kevin said:
2005-10-28 03:00 -

now, are you sure it was lost?....b/c I remember hearing Amit saying something about borrowing your stethescope to take to Brookline. I think the link next to my name on this comment is proof enough....


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