Later he renamed it the stethoscope.

So even my stethoscope is now digital.

Does anybody know when the stethoscope was invented?

And that is how stethoscope and auscultation was born.

So the handheld ultrasound is basically surpassing and supplanting the stethoscope.

And it was followed a year or two later by Laennec discovering the stethoscope.

And if you shortchange that ritual by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the nightgown, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient physician relationship.

But what I want to get to, the next frontier, very quickly, and why the stethoscope is on its way out, is because we can transcend listening to the valve sounds, and the breath sounds, because now, introduced by G.E. is a handheld ultra sound.