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Stethoscope
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  1. Anne K Merritt
  1. Correspondence to Anne Merritt, 757 Orange St #3, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; akmerritt{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/jmh.2010.005520

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    She has wandered with me

    since my first days as a physician—

    an unassuming extension of my ears,

    gently slung about a tattered collar,

    patiently transmitting rubs, rhonchi, rales,

    as I struggled to decipher them.

    She has sealed herself against unfamiliar skins—

    wrinkled, …

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