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When you look at a nice stethoscope on eBay, completely forgetting you have the same model in the same colour, in your collection already, it’s probably a sign that you have too many.

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One of my weaknesses is trying to get an example of each variation of a design. Here are five different example of two products. L-R Classic II from 1988, 1992 and 1995, then Classic IISE from 1999 and 2005. The Classic II brought the change from threaded metal retaining ring to a plastic one and rigid diaphragm to floating, before several modifications - first the appearance of the ‘L’ logo and branding on the diaphragm, then the change from threaded ear tips to snap-on ones. The Classic IISE brought the change from floating to tuneable diaphragm, and then the binaurals were made more curvy and less angular.

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A short guide to counting in Littmann:

Cardiology - I, II, IISE, III, IV

Classic - I, II, IISE, III.

[fantasiesoftheheart]

[resus-girl]

Yes please 😍

[aetcranium]

Options

I’m contemplating a Cardiology IV, but can’t decide on the tubing colour.

Curious to know which you’d all pick, out of Black, Navy, Green and Burgundy? Opinions welcome!

[nurse-buckley]

I need your help friends! Please reblog or reply with some of the stupidest or mundane way you have hurt yourselves? The more outrageous the better.

For example - my clumsy moments have been cutting myself on a knife I wasn’t even using and impaling my thigh on a fork.

Tagging a few people to spread the word but anyone can reply - there is a reason for this you’ll hopefully be seeing very soon!

@fireladybuckley @firemedicdiaz @occasionalinanity @muchamusedaboutnothing @cardiaccadillac

[something-like-a-heart]

I may have a couple of relevant stories...

Once, I was running up the stairs from the basement. One of my toes got caught in the cuff on the jeans leg opposite it, and I fell up the stairs. I put my arms up to cushion the blow, and I had long purple bruises on them for over a week.

Another time, I was getting out of a swimming pool. I used to jump up, brace my arms on the floor outside the pool, and twist so that my legs would follow the rest of me out. But one day, one of my hands slipped. I fell, landing in the Superman-flying position (one arm outstretched above my head). And while I was lucky enough to not have actually dislocated the arm, I fucked up my rotator cuff. It still gives me grief once in a while, nearly a quarter century after the original injury.

I picked up the lid from a can of soup that I’d opened moments before and somehow ended up with a deep cut on my index finger. I still have a scar, and it’s been over twenty years.

I once gave myself a minor concussion by (I kid you not) slipping on someone else’s banana peel and hitting my head on a chair on the way down.

Oh, and I accidentally stabbed myself in the same finger last summer. I was cutting up some soup meat when a cat ran into my leg when another one was chasing him (this one is a bit accident-prone himself). The knife slipped, so now I have another lovely scar near one of my knuckles. I’m lucky it wasn’t too deep. It’s probably permanently scarred, but at least I didn’t hit any muscles or major blood vessels.

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At school I fainted after burning myself in a science lesson. I went to pick up the tongs which had been holding a test tube in a bunsen burner flame just minutes earlier, and I’d forgotten quite how hot they were. Other than that... flicking excess solder off a soldering iron, such that it landed on my arm, and once while washing up, when unbeknown to me, a glass shattered in the hot water and I plunged my hands in to the bowl to pick the items up. I also managed to faint after getting cramp in my leg and ended up falling down the stairs, and another time rearranging the bathroom after fainting in there too after a visit to the dentist. As one does.

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Q. What’s better than a series of stethrings across your patient’s skin?

A. A series of five concentric stethrings from the Harvey’s corrugated diaphragm across their skin.

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Please, come in and have a seat.

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I couldn’t resist.

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Sometimes we all need a bit of self-care.

[pulpwrit3r]

Models are cute, some even breathtaking....

But real bodies are so goddamn sexy.

Real. Not photoshopped. Women who have lived life. Not artificially kept to a certain physical condition or appearance.

Ladies, do not look in the mirror and judge yourself harshly. The media is so full of crap.

Stretch marks, curves, scars that show you have lived. That tummy that is fun to kiss.

Slender or plus-sized, A-cup or EE or cancer survivor who had to sacrifice one or both breasts to survive. Muscular limbs or slender, it matters not.

Real bodies are so fucking hot.....

[resus-girl]

This!

[not-necessari1y]

You can be a model― IT DON’T MATTER IF YOU CHUBBY.

[aetcranium]

I’m going to listen to your chest now. Undress to the waist, remove your shoes, and lie down on the table please.

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The one on the left, or the one on the right? A tough choice.

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Some people like to collect vintage cars. I prefer collecting vintage (and not so vintage) Littmanns.

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[jugularbells-deactivated2021020]

Reblog if in your life you've stethed a real bare chest in addition to your own.

[cardiocouple1013-deactivated202]

Yup ♡

[blackheartbeatz]

multiple :)

[cpheartbeat-deactivated20211025]

☺️ Yes

[aetcranium]

Ooooh, vintage.