Medicine during science course in college?

How many of you have had a science course at school during which a stethoscope was brought out by the teacher, or a nurse or...

Were you able to try, what happened?

Thank you

I took a full year of anatomy and physiology for my sophomore year (this last year actually). During our study of the cardiovascular system, we did a few different labs regarding the heart. (One including doing basic 3-lead EKGs on our lab partners) But one of the labs we did was learning to take blood pressure. So there were stethoscopes everywhere! Which for me, was enough to raise my usually-low blood pressure up a bit, hahaha.

Basically, I was at a lab bench with three other girls. (All three were nursing students. I'm actually a bio major with an education concentration, but used this as a bio elective) The point of the lab was to learn to take blood pressure, then measure it on our lab partners with their arms in three different positions and record the readings. One with the arm heart level, one with the arm over the head, and one with the arm held below the heart, so that we could recognize the differences in the readings and what they meant. 😃 So in that lab, I got to play with blood pressure cuffs AND stethoscopes, and took blood pressure on three different young ladies. Not as exciting for me as it would be for some of the guys out here,

I'd imagine. 😉

Being me, fascinating by stethoscopes and the heart...I already knew how to take blood pressure before the lab, haha. But one of the girls was really struggling with it. So our professor had to come over and help her...with me being the guinea pig. Oh lord, my face was RED. Hello, embarrassment. He showed her where to place the stethoscope, how to position the cuff on my arm, and what you were listening for while watching the dial. :x Easily my favorite day in lab thus far, but also easily the most embarrassing for me!

Thank you for sharing this.

I would have loved to see your red face ;-) (I had the same one when I bought my first stethoscope in a shop...)

So you only focused on blood pressure, you did not take the opportunity to listen to your 3 friends heart?

No, unfortunately I didn't haha. We were allowed to head home from lab once we got our three readings and discussed them with the professor, so we all just wanted to get out early. 😜 If my lab partners would have been some of the cute guys in the room...well...I might have stuck around. 😉

Of course in medical school I had demonstrations all the time of heart and lung sounds as well as blood pressure. Sadly it did absolutely nothing erotic for me.

Yes, in various labs from high school on.

Blood pressure, heart sounds, lung sounds, bowel sounds....

What happened? We learned stuff. End of lesson.

I did while I was in JrHigh School living in the US. I remember the blood pressure labs, I think there were more than one. A lot of cuffs and steths used to be available for us to practice on fellow students. Don't know why...but I always chose ladies...

I even remember the teacher was pretty cute, I know I would have taken her BP if she had let me...

I also remember Neurology labs where we would all go testing everyones reflexes! that was pretty fun too.

I took AP Chem and AP Bio in high school and we did BP and heart and lung auscultation on each other. There were a few restrictions. The boys auscultated each other and the girls could auscultate the boys, the girls auscultated each other but the boys were not allowed to auscultate the girls. They didn't want any "breast issues" in the class. The boys took off their shirts, the girls loosened their top buttons.

I guess that was a little sexist, but it was par for the course in the late 1980's.