Stethoscopes Contaminated After Single Physical Exam Stethoscopes get contaminated after a single physical exam, with the contamination greater than that seen on most of the physician's dominant hand, ...

Although healthcare workers' hands are the main source of bacterial transmission in hospitals, physicians' stethoscopes appear to play a role. To explore this question, investigators assessed the ...

I felt a little sad when I read a report from the “Scientific Session of the American Academy of Family Practice” last week. The keynote speaker, Dr. Eric Topol, a renowned cardiologist, reported that ...