“So he took 24 sheets of paper and rolled them into a long tube and put that up against her chest, listened to the other end, and found that not only could he hear the heart sounds very, very well, but it was actually better than what he could hear with his ear.” The stethoscope has been around for a long time and has basically come to be viewed as a symbol that means doctor. But with all the new technologies, are its days numbered?