If you’re looking for poetic material with medical themes, the pages of the journal Medical Humanities are a good place to begin. The publication regularly features medically inspired poems – turn for example to Volume 37, Issue 1, which features : ● ‘Stethoscope’ (by Anne K Merritt) Here’s an extract : “She has wandered with […]
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Stethoscopic investigations (part 3 of 3)
Would one normally expect a health-professional’s stethoscope to hang more predominantly to their left, or their right? And if there is a bias, what conclusions may be drawn? In 2007, professor Emmanuel Stylianos Antonarakis MBBCh performed a cross-sectional questionnaire survey with 186 medical doctors of all grades from the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. The […]
Stethoscopic investigations (part 2 of 3)
Is the “cool” or circumcervical placement of the stethoscope when not in use as efficacious as the traditional placement in terms of transfer time to the functional position? Professor William Hanley MD, FRCPC (then with the Divisions of Paediatric Medicine and of Clinical and Biochemical Genetics, Department of Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) and professor […]
Stethoscopic investigations (part 1 of 3)
“The stethoscope, and its use in the medical examination, has become iconic of ‘doctors’ and their work.” But why? Dr. Tom Rice, currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK, has performed an extensive study to find out, and his results are published in the Journal of Material Culture, September 2010 vol. 15 […]