Letting patients listen to their heartbeat

Hello all!

For play doctors: Do you give your patients the opportunity to listen to their own heartbeat? Do you specifically ask them if they want to? Do you tell them/force them to listen? What about getting them to listen to your heartbeat?

For play patients: Do you ask to listen to your heartbeat? When do you prefer to listen or ask? Do you try to listen to your play doctor's heartbeat too?

In my steth sessions, when I am a doctor, I always ask my patients if they want to listen to their own heartbeat and then if they want to listen to my heartbeat too.

I also like being a patient and so at the end of the visit I always ask the play doctor if I can listen to his/her heartbeat.

Never. It detracts from the realism and is unhygienic. That's why doctors never do it in real life. Plus, the stethoscope is the doctor's tool, not a toy to be passed around.

Guess I'm a purist. 🙂

That's why doctors never do it in real life.

That’s not true that doctors ‘never’ do it, but I agree it isn’t the most hygienic. It’s more common working in paediatric health than with adults, but I know from firsthand experience as a former child interested in medicine and medical work, as well as a practitioner, that being involved with the process makes it less confronting for little ones. So “would you like to hear your heart?” etc aren’t uncommon.

In a play setting, I see no harm in this as it is a play setting… It comes down to how “realistic” or “stringent” all parties consent for the encounter to be. My partner has used one of my stethoscopes while we’ve been alone together previously, and he works in IT… Neither of us got hurt.

"Never. It detracts from the realism and is unhygienic."

I have done it myself in my clinical practice ..........as for being unhygienic...... you simply clean the stethoscope from the earpiece to bell/diaphragm..which is how I was trained to prevent cross infection ( standard infection control procedure).

Several of my patients in the ITU (ICU US equivalent) have asked what it sound like while auscultating them for pulmonary and cardiac exams. Even when I worked in endoscopy listening for bowel sounds post colonoscopy and gastrostomy (especially important if you have patients complaining of pain or discomfort post procedure.)

One of my pediatricians this when I was young but I can't think of any reason any doctor would do it with an adult.

I have had two play patients who had never heard their own hearts. Young women, one was 19 and one was 22. I let them listen through my cardio steth.

For a procedure I had to have a heart check and blood flow check.

Ultrasound was used on my neck.

It was superb seeing and hearing it on the monitor.

The ecg was as expected too.

I guess I should have added my own response lol.

The couple of play patients I've been the play doctor for, I certainly encouraged them to listen to their own heartbeat. One of them was a cardiophile like myself, and we also did mutual listening of each other's heartbeats. The other one had never used a stethoscope before (she had recorded her heartbeat with her phone with online play though), and wanted to listen to her heartbeat, particularly when I was masturbating her towards the end of the exam. It was really awesome to watch her listen as I was listening at the same time.

As a play patient, I enjoy listening to my heartbeat. Not gonna lie, my heart is beating really fast at the end when the play doctor is stimulating me to orgasm, much faster than me listening to myself at home. I usually make it pretty clear with my play doctors I'm a big stethoscope fan, so this is a feature of the exam I always look forward to.

Good question! As a play doctor, I always make sure my patients know that they are welcome to switch roles anytime and examine me, but also listen to my heart, lungs, and stomach. I believe that it's a fun icebreaker activity to begin the play session by letting the patient enjoy some relaxing time with the stethoscope and hearing their own heartbeat. This can help to build trust between play patient/doctor and also remove some anxiety before a session.

That's why doctors never do it in real life. Plus, the stethoscope is the doctor's tool, not a toy to be passed around.

Guess I'm a purist. 🙂

I guess I must have experienced the exception(s) that proved the rule... ;-)

By the way, that's a great idea. I would even untie the patient's hands for a while so she can put the stethoscope in her ears and listen to herself😋

It is an embodiment of common identity between doctor and patient, in both the real world and the play world.