Wednesday 13 June 2012

Silent Symphony

I remember the first patient I ever examined as a medical student.

He was three years old, and his mother had brought him in to see her general practitioner as she noticed him with a slight temperature.

As I gently auscultated his chest, I was struck by how beautiful the soft breathing of a child sounded through my stethoscope.

Even today, it is still the most beautiful sound I have ever heard.

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