In 1816, French physician Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec had a young woman on his exam table, and no idea what to do with her. She’d come in complaining of chest pains, and their conversation and ...

A chest exam with a stethoscope nets nothing extra. Now the cycle is repeating itself: Young physicians have fewer mentors who can pass on the skill of auscultation. Thompson, Criley and a handful of ...

Is high-tech imaging replacing rubber tubing and ear buds? Doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient’s chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Thirty-five-year-old Paris physician Rene ...

The stethoscope is having a crossroads moment. Perhaps more than at any time in its two-century history, this ubiquitous tool of the medical profession is at the center of debate over how medicine ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A DOCTOR who examined a toddler the day before the child stopped breathing and died might not have listened to the boy's chest with a ...

A GP working on the Isle of Dogs has been suspended after he rubbed a woman’s breasts with a stethoscope in a locked consultation room during a thyroid examination. Dr Manish Tripathi cannot practice ...

I felt a little sad when I read a report from the “Scientific Session of the American Academy of Family Practice” last week. The keynote speaker, Dr. Eric Topol, a renowned cardiologist, reported that ...

Two centuries after its invention, the stethoscope — the very symbol of the medical profession — is facing an uncertain prognosis. It is threatened by hand-held devices that are also pressed against ...

No implement better visually identifies a physician than does the stethoscope, the acoustic medical device that enables medical personnel to listen to the internal sounds produced by the body.