When doctors check the heart beat, why do you have to take deep breaths?!
Question: When doctors check the heart beat, why do you have to take deep breaths?
Answers:
The deep breaths allow him to hear how the air is going in and out of your lungs, he is listening for the breath sounds in your lungs, not your heart. When he listens on your back he's listening for lungs, when he is listening on the front he is listening to your heart...
When a doctor has you take deep breaths, he's not listening to your heart. He's listening to your lungs.
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