Stethoscope Quotes

• The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

  Eric Topol

  Heart, Listening, Obsolete

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Doctors, Perfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope,
  Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP.
  Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.

  Kool Keith

  Rap, White, Hip Hop

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• I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

  Jessye Norman

  Love, Children, Heart

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• A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 05, 2017

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• Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

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• You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  School, Thinking, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

  John McPhee

  Doctors, Sound, Indian

  John McPhee (2011). “Table of Contents”, p.77, Macmillan

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• At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

  Pattie Mallette

  Doctors, Games, Medicine

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• The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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  Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

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• So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Men, Years

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Broken, Sound, Doe

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• [When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Voice, Violin, Fountain

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• How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Abdomen, Excuse

  "Opinions You Won’t Find on Twitter: Fran Lebowitz Talks" by Ginai Bellafante, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2010.

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• I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.

  Eric Topol

  Real, Heart, Ultrasounds

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• One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.

  Edward Dorn

  Sleep, Writing, Sick

  Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey (2007). “Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes”, p.41, University of Michigan Press

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