Yes he invented it because he was uncomfortable doing so this way, and the image leads to the sarcastic comment in the image, but then again the image is of an attractive, healthy looking, young woman.
I don't think most people really want to be doing this to someone with open sores, or say someones' 90 year old grandmother/grandfather, someone with a highly contagious disease, or with a sick and upset thrashing around child. Plus you can move the diaphragm/bell around while paying attention to what you're hearing a lot better than pressing your ear, listening, shuffling the patient or yourself around, repeat, in order to get a better idea of what's going on.
My gynecologist friend once burst someone's bubble when tsp,Rome was saying how lucky he was and he replied "imagine the average overweight women and grandmas you see on the street, plus they come to me when something is seriously wrong with their equipment."
He also doesn't like mushrooms on his pizza because, as he says, he tries every day to kill fungus.
I kid, stethoscopes have saved countless lives.
I don't think most people really want to be doing this to someone with open sores, or say someones' 90 year old grandmother/grandfather, someone with a highly contagious disease, or with a sick and upset thrashing around child. Plus you can move the diaphragm/bell around while paying attention to what you're hearing a lot better than pressing your ear, listening, shuffling the patient or yourself around, repeat, in order to get a better idea of what's going on.
My gynecologist friend once burst someone's bubble when tsp,Rome was saying how lucky he was and he replied "imagine the average overweight women and grandmas you see on the street, plus they come to me when something is seriously wrong with their equipment."
He also doesn't like mushrooms on his pizza because, as he says, he tries every day to kill fungus.