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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s be honest: most docs trained in the last few decades don’t know what they are hearing through a stethoscope unless the diagnosis is “death.”

We have a problem here and it’s a lot bigger than in-person visit availability.[/quote]

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I don't understand how doctors are no longer trained to listen through a stethoscope. Before COVID my son had a bad cough that wasn't going away. I took him to the on call doctor at his pediatrician's office who is in his 30's. He quickly listened to his chest and took an x-ray and said it just takes a while to get over a cold. After a week my son was getting worse and had a fever. I took him back to his pediatrician's office and his pediatrician who is in his late 60's or early 70's listened to his chest sitting up and thumped, then face up, then face down and said "right here, it's pneumonia and pointed to a spot on his chest. He then took out the x-ray and showed me something that didn't look like much. He said it was hard to see on an x-ray without narrowing in by listening. Prescribed antibiotics and he got better.

Is it that med schools no longer have students practice with stethescopes? [/quote]

Hands on anything is being taught less and less. Younger doctors know a lot about running multiple tests, however.

People here often have a low opinion of foreign medical graduates, but many of them were taught hands on medicine to a far greater extent than US graduates.[/quote]

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