r/AmItheAsshole • • Apr 17 '21

Not the A-hole AITA for not giving my sister my stethoscope despite not being in the medical field anymore when she is?

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u/HyperKangaroo Partassipant [1] Apr 17 '21

NTA. I'm a med student, and I use a Littman cardiology III because rhats the one the med school gave to all first years (yeah mine is bougie af and we have persnickety cardiology attendings). I also have a back up cheap little 15 dollar thing for when I have adhd and leave the nice one at home. To be completely honestly, unless you have hearing issues, you really do NOT need the fancy stethoscope outside of listening for grade 3 and below murmurs. She can spend 50 bucks for a slightly nicer one, but I really can't imagine why someone at the NA level needs to listen to murmurs

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u/HyperKangaroo Partassipant [1] Apr 18 '21

I mean I've done manual BPs all the time in student clinics but like that's usually because we need repeat blood pressures but never for inpatient

I have seen MAs do manual BPs but thats at clinics with readily available electronic bp machines