“It must be confessed that there is something even ludicrous in the picture of a grave physician formally listening through a long tube applied to the patient’s thorax, as if the disease within were a ...

When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they’re a clinician. This medical device has been around for over 200 years and remains a staple ...

LAWRENCE - There is encouraging news about the role of artificial intelligence in health care. Normally, blood flows from one heart chamber to another, passing through little doors called valves that ...

A Google Images search for “doctor” reveals essentially the same picture: a doctor wearing a crisply ironed white coat with a stethoscope draped, scarf-like, around the neck. The only difference ...

In today’s world of advanced medical technology, do doctors still need stethoscopes or are they just for show? Dr. Bates from Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, ID, talks about this iconic ...

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 ...

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 ...