I have stethoscope envy....

This is the beautiful Welh Allyn Tycos Latex FreeHarvey DLX Triple Head Stethoscope that my attending physician uses. Today, he let Farley and I use his stethoscope to listen to a woman who has a murmur (a type of extra sound) and a spilt S2 (During the second heart sound the aortic and pulmonic valves close. A pathological splitting is when the valves close at different times, regardless of the change in thoracic pressure due to normal breathing--physiological splitting occurs during inspiration). Listening with my stethoscope was like trying to adjust an old time radio, but still hearing static, and listening with his was like listening to satellite radio on bose surround sound system.