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Listening to your insides like they owe the doctor a confession.
means The medical act of listening to the body's internal sounds—heart, lungs, gut—usually through a stethoscope, to diagnose what's happening inside.
from From Latin auscultare, to listen attentively—the same root that secretly hides inside the word scout, the listener-out.
Pre-stethoscopeDoctors pressed an ear directly to the chest.
Laennec's fixHe rolled paper into a tube in 1816.
Trained earsMurmurs and crackles are diagnoses you can hear.