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A Hearty Life

March 31st, 2006

Doctors Need More Experience With Stethoscopes

Last week, I posted Dr. Hopcroft’s opinion that stethoscopes were not particularly useful for diagnosing heart trouble. His opinion may not be a common one among other doctors.
In the March 27, 2006 edition of The Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers suggest that doctors who have more experience in using the stethoscope (auscultation) are better […]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD -- 4 comments

March 24th, 2006

Listening to Heart is Bogus

Dr. Keith Hopcroft in The Times (UK) rates the bullshit factor of doctors listening to our hearts as HIGH.
Listening to your heart provides information about the state of your valves, but virtually nothing else. And these valves are only rarely implicated in most heart problems. For example, heart attacks and angina are caused by blocked […]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD -- 5 comments