Did your physician let you use his stethoscope and listen?

Growing up, my pediatrician let me take a listen. He explained what I should be listening for.

I don’t remember my docs ever offering to let me take a listen as a child and I never asked or cared to as an adult but I always offer to let my pediatric patients listen to my heart before I auscultate theirs. Never have I had one turn me down yet! lol

I have had one grown up ask if he could hear his heartbeat and if I could explain what he was hearing, I obliged.

Unfortunately this never happened. I always wished it did, but was too scared to ask, especially when I was younger and my mom would be in the examination room with me.

Yes as a child a Dr.Moody (who was actually very kind and yes that was her name not very moody luckily) let me listen to my heart with her stethoscope. The coolest thing ever and definitely lessened my anxiety.

I don't recall ever having this opportunity.

I remember my pediatrician having a lot of business sense, so he never let me use his stethoscope as I recall. I would have been too embarrassed to in the first place!

Yes, my pediatrician let me listen a few times at my checkups when I was younger.

My pediatrician let me listen when i was a kid

Yes, listened to my heart and lungs.

Yup and I kind of still want to?

No, but when I was starting college and my mother was in the hospital and nurse let me use her stethoscope. She first put it in my ears and let me listen as she moved it around my chest. Then, she moved it around her chest while I listened. Finally she let me listen on my own, but alas, only on my chest.

No,not my pediatrician nor my pediatric cardiologist never came with such an offer. I had a habit as a young kid to bring my stethoscope with to my visits to the pediatrician. She was always saying it was really cute.

I wonder if my pediatric cardiologist ever noticed that I fantasized bad to have a listen to my heart with his Welch Allyn. I always behaved myself though.

Not so long ago, I brought my sphygmomanometer to the doctor under the pretext of checking whether it accurately measures pressure.

First, she first my pressure with my sphygmomanometer, then with the help of her sphygmomanometer.

After that, she checked whether I measure my pressure correctly. It was very nice.

We always had a stethoscope in the house with the BP cuff and we had our daughters listen to their heart when they were about three years old. They were always amazed to hear their body working. The same goes for listening to their lungs.

Who can doubt the resurrection story as these old, dead threads come back to life?!? LOL! My family doctor did offer his stethoscope when I was in elementary school. I suspect that fear of lawsuits and/or malpractice insurance would prevent it today. I usually offer mine to my playmates to listen to their hearts, or to listen to their abdomen as their enema gurgles around inside them.

Never when I was a kid. I also never liked to be in doctor when I was a kid. Nether now. It is not fear but because I have this fetish it feels dirty somehow