Time spent for stethoscope examination

On average, how long does it take you to auscultate? I auscultate for about a minute each spot with the bell and diaphragm, repeating the sequence at least twice. My cardiologist also listens to me sitting and lying down, sometimes standing.

I spend about 5-10 minutes doing the entire thing - different locations, different positions, and both diaphragm/bell. I think my doctor spends less.

I'd say I spent around 5-10 minutes between different positions and bell/diaphragm as well. For patients who I know are into hearts as well, much longer.

My doctor? Less than two mintues.

My doctor? Less than two mintues.

Even my family doctor takes less than two minutes to listen to my heart

60 seconds max over my shirt (flannel shirt last time) is about it. Enough to confirm that I'm alive. All of the women I've seen for play exams said I stethed them more thoroughly than their real docs did

In real life, my PCP only listens for like 30 seconds total. In my job (work in an ED), I'm not spending tons of time either to be fair; most of what we really need to know from a heart sounds or lung sounds standpoint can be acquired in like 30 seconds anyways. If something is really off, I'll spend more time listening.

For play exams, my play doctors always spent lots of time auscultating (which is my favorite non-genital/rectal exam part).

For the few times I've been the play doctor, I'll spend about a minute listening with the diaphragm to my patient's heart, then another minute with the bell. I'll listen with the patient lying down for a minute with each side of the stethoscope, along with in left lateral position. I'll spend a minute listening to all abdominal quadrants, and a bit of time listening to the femoral and carotid arteries too.

If the patient was good with it, I've also listened to their hearts after exercise. Always my favorite is if the patient wants me to examine them during sexual stimulation. At minimum, I will listen periodically to their heartbeats. Other times, its been from start to climax, and listening until the heartrate returns to normal.

Normally, I listen carefully to each of my spots for around 1-2 min/spot. First with the diaphragm, then with the bell, in standing, sitting and laying position.

Unfortunately, I just had one play session with a younger man. There, he stethed me first, also in these positions and - felt - for more than 2 min./spot. Than we changed and I listened to his heart the same way. Finally, we had a quite expanded mutual stething in standing-up position where we listened to the spots we liked the most and for a couple of minutes/spot.

I generally listen to heart sounds for at least two minutes at each spot, first with the diaphragm then the bell with the “patient” lying semi-recumbent.

I usually listen to breath sounds with the “patient” sitting or standing

Minimum time