Things to remember...

One of my favorite memories at the clinic:

A client has brought her daughter along for her cat's annual exam. The cat is really well behaved, and the daughter is both polite and inquisitive, so after auscultating the chest, I offer my stethoscope to her so she can hear what the heart sounds like. Her eyes light up in excitement, and I remember one of the reasons why I love veterinary medicine. Unfortunately, I have passed the earpieces to her in a way that she ends up putting on the instrument backward. This makes it much harder to hear a heartbeat, and her facial expression tells me that she cannot hear much. To remedy this, I ask that she "turn it around", and instead of flipping the stethoscope so the earpieces face down her ear canal, she physically turns her body 360 degrees, trying her best to keep the instrument on while she struggles to hear her cats heart.