The Hypocritic Oath

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Nations actors declare that stethoscopes should be placed in ears backwards

“Learn how to act, and then I'll listen to you on how to wear the stethoscope. See what I did there?”

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Kyle Bradford Jones
Jun 24, 2025
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HOLLYWOOD, CA (The Hypocritic Oath)--America's physicians have long bemoaned medical inaccuracies in medical television shows and movies. Many romantic partners have actually murdered their physician spouses based on their complaining too much about the faulty representations. Chief among the complaints has long been that actors seem to never wear stethoscopes correctly, but instead put them in their ears backwards.

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