Choice 3: MDF Instruments MD One Premium Dual Head Stethoscope Our take: A quality stethoscope that’s good enough for clinical use but affordable enough to purchase for home use, too.

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Davis asked. “I can get a good stethoscope for less than $20. We are not going to sit there and do an echocardiogram on every patient who walks through the door.” ...

Not only does this 3D printed stethoscope work, it works well: tests showed its acoustic performance to be on par with the gold standard in medical stethoscopes, the Littmann Cardiology III.

“So he took 24 sheets of paper and rolled them into a long tube and put that up against her chest, listened to the other end, and found that not only could he hear the heart sounds very, very ...

He admits the stethoscope is an icon, but doesn’t buy the argument that if you lose the stethoscope, you lose the tradition of “healing touch.” ...

March 05, 2016 The stethoscope: Timeless tool or outdated relic? The stethoscope is the iconic symbol of a physician ...

What they found is that their stethoscope, with a 30-cent 3D-printed head, and less than $5 worth of tubing, exceeded not only international standards for audio-frequency response, but had better ...

Today’s stethoscope debate is really a fight about young, soon-to-be-doctors, like Viswanathan. What skills will they need and what should medical schools be teaching them? Steven Peitzman, who ...

Why is a 200-year-old icon of the medical field still in wide use in the digital age? Some say modern tools are more informative and worth the extra cost, but the stethoscope has staunch defenders.