In present day medicine stethoscope topic is rather difficult to explain but whatever may be the recent advances in medicine stethoscope will remain an important tool to a clinician. It may be losing a bit of importance these days. In past a clinician would look for murmurs in a cardiac case and look for breathing sounds, wheezes of bronchi in a chest case. Even bowls sounds were heard by stethoscope however with advent of recent gadgets it may be losing some importance.
As we are in era of echocardiography and coronary angiography in cardiac cases and pulmonary functions tests in chest cases however stethoscope cannot lose its importance. Has stethoscope really lost its importance in today's medical practice?
