For the medical type people out there.

[SeaCat]

Okay so you have your stethescope. Not only is it a usefull and expensive tool but it is a symbol of your trade. We proudly wear it looped around our necks.

Unfortunately doing this damages the stethescope tubing. Your skin oil stiffens the tubing which causes it to crack.

Now there are several things you can do. The first is to not carry your "scope around your neck. The second is to wear it with the earpieces around your neck and the bell in your shirt pocket.

Another thing you can do is buy an expensive scope and wear it as usual. When the tubing finally goes south as it will, go out and buy a cheap ass one. Cut the bell off the new cheapo and replace it with the bell from your expensive one that crapped out. (The bell is the part that makes the expensive ones worth the money.)

Cat

 

[Just-Legal]

Doctor friend of mine tucks it under her shirt

 

[Dar~]

collared shirts are nice too. Thats what my mom does. has it under the collar of her scrubs.

 

[rgraham666]

Aren't you supposed to keep the bell in a little container of rubbing alcohol? So it's nice and cold when you use it?

 

[Liar]

Question for the medical types: How often in your daily work do you actually use a stetoscope? Enough to motivate having something as expesive with you dangling around the neck at all times? I imagine listening to heart and lungs of a patient is something most often done in an orderly fashion in an examination room, where other tools of the trade usually are stored.

 

[cantdog]

Nowadays blood pressures, in house, are taken by automatic machines mounted to the wall. I used my stetho mostly for blood pressures, on the ambulance. And in the Dominican Republic on the medical team.

 

[R. Richard]

Another thing you can do is buy an expensive scope and wear it as usual. When the tubing finally goes south as it will, go out and buy a cheap ass one. Cut the bell off the new cheapo and replace it with the bell from your expensive one that crapped out. (The bell is the part that makes the expensive ones worth the money.)

Cat

I give up. Why do they not sell just a tubing setup into which you can plug an expensive bell?

 

[3113]

Another thing you can do is buy an expensive scope and wear it as usual. When the tubing finally goes south as it will, go out and buy a cheap ass one. Cut the bell off the new cheapo and replace it with the bell from your expensive one that crapped out. (The bell is the part that makes the expensive ones worth the money.)

Tell the truth, Cat. You posted this in hopes that someone would ask if they could play with your scope

 

[oggbashan]

I bought an ex-army stethescope for my doctor daughter.

Apart from being high specification, its tube is proof against any pollutant and puncture proof except by RPG.

It cost me a tenth of the normal price. Later the surplus dealer realised what he had and sold out at 10% above normal price.

Og

 

[glynndah]

I bought an ex-army stethescope for my doctor daughter.

Apart from being high specification, its tube is proof against any pollutant and puncture proof except by RPG.

It cost me a tenth of the normal price. Later the surplus dealer realised what he had and sold out at 10% above normal price.

Og

So, what kind of role playing game do doctors play? And why is puncturing anything part of it?

 

[scheherazade_79]

So, what kind of role playing game do doctors play? And why is puncturing anything part of it?

I don't know, but it got me thinking... I'd like a stethoscope

Can you imagine what a woman's heartbeat during orgasm would sound like?

 

[Stella_Omega]

I don't know, but it got me thinking... I'd like a stethoscope

Can you imagine what a woman's heartbeat during orgasm would sound like?

A girl and her toys...

 

[scheherazade_79]

A girl and her toys...

And you wouldn't have to stop at just the stethoscope... There are lots of things out there you can buy for a good game of doctors and nurses

 

[SeaCat]

Question for the medical types: How often in your daily work do you actually use a stetoscope? Enough to motivate having something as expesive with you dangling around the neck at all times? I imagine listening to heart and lungs of a patient is something most often done in an orderly fashion in an examination room, where other tools of the trade usually are stored.

Quite often believe it or not. At least I do. I work on a unit so I move from room to room.

For me I use it when I do my start of shift evaluation of my patients. (Lungs and abdominal sounds as well as Blood Pressures.) (I refuse to use the machines we have on the floor fo several reasons. The first is that a manual B/P is more accurate. The second is you can tell a lot from manuals. The third is that we have to drag these machines from room to room which increases the chance of contamination.) The R.N.'s on my unit use them for the same reasons.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

I bought an ex-army stethescope for my doctor daughter.

Apart from being high specification, its tube is proof against any pollutant and puncture proof except by RPG.

It cost me a tenth of the normal price. Later the surplus dealer realised what he had and sold out at 10% above normal price.

Og

Damn, who makes them?

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Tell the truth, Cat. You posted this in hopes that someone would ask if they could play with your scope

Nah, but I can think of a few other things they can play with.

Cat

 

[oggbashan]

Damn, who makes them?

Cat

Sorry. They were old stock sold as surplus in the 1970s. Even the surplus shop that sold them, Lawrence Corner, suppliers of uniforms to The Beatles for the Sgt Pepper album, is also history.

The tubing is reinforced like gas hose with metal mesh under the outer layer. What the materials are, I don't know, but the whole stethescope is non magnetic. Perhaps they were intended for dealing with unexploded bombs?

My daughter guards it jealously. Her colleagues are envious even if they've spent hundreds of dollars on the latest new stethescope.

Og

 

[SeaCat]

Sorry. They were old stock sold as surplus in the 1970s. Even the surplus shop that sold them, Lawrence Corner, suppliers of uniforms to The Beatles for the Sgt Pepper album, is also history.

The tubing is reinforced like gas hose with metal mesh under the outer layer. What the materials are, I don't know, but the whole stethescope is non magnetic. Perhaps they were intended for dealing with unexploded bombs?

My daughter guards it jealously. Her colleagues are envious even if they've spent hundreds of dollars on the latest new stethescope.

Og

Now doesn't that figure?

Too bad they don't make them like that any more.

Cat