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Can listening to your heart with a stethoscope determine if there is a serious heart or lung condition?
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Stethoscope: by listening to your heart and lungs, we can hear many possible problems. Heart murmurs, skipped beats, pneumonia, wheezing, etc
Answered 3/14/2015
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