{"id":580,"date":"2007-09-19T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T02:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/09\/what-can-10-get-you\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:19:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:19:53","slug":"what-can-10-get-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/09\/19\/what-can-10-get-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What can $10. get you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but it got me a stethescope that kicks the ass of the one ‘issued’ to me [more like ‘loaned’] by the clinic I served time at in the Army. That one was probably made out of the cheapest materials possible, though, so it could be purchased for pennies each.<\/p>\n

This one that I just got is still pretty cheap [being only $10.00], but it doesn’t suck. Everything is so amazingly clear, it actually hurts a little if you bump the diaphragm too hard.
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\nI would’ve taken pictures of it to post, but I can’t find my camera right now. And it’d probably be pretty stupid to take pictures of a stethescope, right? It’s not like I got the purple one, or the teal one. Just the basic black with latex free tubing.<\/p>\n

…of course, it’s pretty stupid just posting about it, isn’t it? I’m pretty sure I’m in a minority here, getting excited over a common piece of simple medical equipment. Anyone else would probably not see the point of having one of these things, since they’re good for, what? Listening to shit, and taking a person’s BP the old fashioned way? Who does that anymore, with all the cheap and easily obtained digital ‘BP and Heart Rate’ things available at RiteAid?<\/p>\n

What can I say? I like being able to hear my own heart, lung and bowel sounds.<\/p>\n

…now all I need is an otoscope…and a way to look in my own ears. I’m thinking $10. won’t get me that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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