I personally own 2 Littmanns. And I agree with you 100 percent theredbagtaxi, a Littmann is I feel, the sign of a true professional. That brand is the only brand I would even consider wearing around my neck, which by the way I do not usually wear around my neck at work. Believe it or not, the extra weight a stethoscope puts on my neck begins to get quite heavy by the end of your shift. Besides that I have a very short neck so it makes me feel like I can't relax my neck. Odd I know. Also, as much as I am moving all the time, usually at a fast brisk walk, and even a sprint down the hallway, I get all sweaty and it's uncomfortable.
My most prized scope that I have is just a plain basic Littmann Cardo that Doc gave me as one of my birthday gifts one year. The second year we were dating as a matter of fact. It didn't cost him one cent because it was a drug rep scope and the bell I believe has an add for Symbicort. He knew I only use Littmanns and he knows of my love for all the drug rep stuff. So, it aside from the puppy he bought me the same year for Christmas, it was the perfect gift.
I loaned out that scope once, and only once. The house doctor was in at one of my previous facilities and asked me to borrow my scope. I let him. He walked out with it. I high tailed it out of the building too after him but wasn't able to catch him. This doctor and I did not at all care for each other in the least, so him taking my precious scope made me even all the more angry. So I came back in and called him on his personal cell phone. I told him he had my scope and he needed to return it ASAP. Then he yelled at me for calling him on his personal cell phone when it wasn't an emergency. I argued with him right back too you betcha. I more or less had to threaten him, and I wasn't nice about it either, lol. Wasn't one of my finer moments. Needless to say I had my scope back in about 15 minutes. No words were exchanged when he returned it lol. He probably figured he better keep his mouth shut. But, that is exactly why no one, and I mean NO ONE ever touches my most precious scope but me. I have people want to borrow it all the time, it's just something we do, or rather I say they do. I bring mine, I use mine. It's probably worth a fortune now seeing as how drug rep stuff no longer exists. Ahhhhh, those were the days no?
Okay, now as far as my feeling when I see a doctor wearing a stethoscope around his neck, as in not hanging off his neck so that the bell is hanging down by his belly button, but when the scope is draped around his neck, bell on one side, ear pieces on the other, well honestly it's a turn on. Has to be a male doctor though, female doctors do absolutely nothing for me, lol. Now when Doc has his stethocope around his neck in the fashon described above, well, that's a whole different ball game. I instantly get all hot and bothered, sweaty and "moist" in and around my soft pink girly parts lol. He literally takes my breath away. He does normally anyway, but with that scope around his neck, OMG, there just are not words. My oh my what that man still does to me, I just don't think it's normal, lol.
Mashie