Did your doctor ever let you use his Stethoscope?

[Mesme Rize 15,683]

I know it's a weird topic, but this just really interests me. Did you ever had the chance (probably in your childhood) to use the stethoscope to listen to your insides? I know that alot of pediatricians do that, because it takes the fear and mystery away from the examination.

I for one never had the courage to ask my Doctor/Pediatrician. I was very shy to ask and even when he offered me at one point, i didn't want to, eventhough i wanted to do it. I guess i just felt very odd about it infront of other grown ups.

What is your story? Something similar, or something different?

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ggg-2 3,553]

A couple times, i think. I dunno, it's been years.

[Lord Midnight Madness 1,543]

No I don't think so, I haven't been to the doctor for a while.

[Lord Valtasar 12,690]

the Pediatrician i went to as a child was also my aunt, so i was not shy at all, i used a stethoscope multiple times
later in my life when i was in the army they also made me use one to test my hearing, i'm not a big fan of it anymore, i think its disgusting to put in your ears smt that was in someone else's ears

[Megas 27,695]

No, he was afraid of me making it go PSSST

 

Edited September 2, 2018 by This Whomps

[Will Guide 21,360]

That was a long time ago, but I guess he did when I was in grade school.

[Passion 3,484]

I did not. I do not want. And I hope I'll never have to. Anything that keeps me far away from realizing I'm a walking bag of organs in a shell of skin should be kept as far away of me as possible. I KNOW I'd start thinking about myself like "There's my lung, that's my heart, I have some ribs scattered around probably.", and it would be a distaster for my psyche. I prefer to think of me as of me, a whole, a unit. Not about every little mechanism inside me separately. Thank you. *Shivers*

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

When I was little, I actually owned a REAL stethoscope! A friend of my mom's is a nurse, and she gave me one when I went as a nurse for Halloween one year. She let me keep it! 

[Phosphor 11,529]

Oh no, I wouldn't have wanted to do that. I use to get really nervous as a kid at the doctor's office. I especially did not like electric blood pressure cuffs. lol

[Ganondorf8 11,321]

Not that I know of. I was a child long ago so my memory of those early years is hazy at best.

[Rikifive 24,192]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaages ago we had a stethoscope lying somewhere in our house, so I had a chance to see-- or rather hear how it works.

[TBD 17,254]

No and um... why would they?

[Dreambiscuit 9,875]

I always like to play with the trinkets at the doctor's office; making little houses out of tongue depressors, tossing cotton balls in the air to make it snow, and trying to hear what's coming through the stethoscope. Most pediatricians are nice and patient about such things. Unfortunately they don't seem to be as understanding about it when you're in your twenties.  

No one ever lets me have any fun. 

[Kevin Tang 2,426]

No and I don't really want to, cuz I already know that it is not that interesting. 

[Truffles 2,033]

When I was really young, I wanted my doctors to let me hear but they didn't. And when I was older, I didn't want to hear my own heartbeat anymore (and in fact it annoys me when I have resting my arm on my ears and can hear it then) so I never bothered to ask again.

[Br O N Y 382]

13 hours ago, Passion said:

I did not. I do not want. And I hope I'll never have to. Anything that keeps me far away from realizing I'm a walking bag of organs in a shell of skin should be kept as far away of me as possible. I KNOW I'd start thinking about myself like "There's my lung, that's my heart, I have some ribs scattered around probably.", and it would be a distaster for my psyche. I prefer to think of me as of me, a whole, a unit. Not about every little mechanism inside me separately. Thank you. *Shivers*

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one who felt this way! It's the reason I for sure won't become a medical doctor, even biology lessons in school about the human body sometimes made me feel uncomfortable. Even now I have a hard time watching anything about medical issues, there is just a seemingly endless amount of things in your body that could go wrong at any time x_x There are just some things about my body I really don't wanna know about.

And to answer the question, I had a lot of randome and weird interests when I was little, but stethoscopes weren't one of them, so I never asked. I think I even disliked them cause it felt so cold on my skin, and it felt uncomfortable sitting shirtless in front of an adult I barely knew.

[Cash In 22,374]

Probably. I can't say I remember it specifically though. :p