Author: Faisal Gulzar

A friend of mine finished her cardiology fellowship a couple years back, and the first “real” purchase she made with her first paycheck wasn’t a car or a vacation. It was a stethoscope. A master cardiology stethoscope, specifically, the kind her attendings had been using the whole time she was training under them. She told me she didn’t get it at first — why does it matter that much, it’s just a tube with two ends, right? Then she used one for a week and never picked up her old one again. That’s basically the whole pitch, if I’m honest.…