Tenuous Tether
In 1816, René Laennec was confronted with a young woman “laboring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case percussion and the application of the hand were of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness.”1 Physical examination required “immediate auscultation” — placemen...
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New England Journal of Medicine Group
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102788 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7832-7156 |