I'm getting a stethoscope from my parents as a birthday present, and I've been doing a lot of research on different types of scopes etc. and I am 95% sure that I want a Littlann Lightweight II (the other 5% of me says that I should get a Classic II, but I know that there isn't a great consensus as to which one is actually better, and the Classic is about $25 more, plus, either will be way better than the super cheap one the school supplied me with that I can hear with, just not extremely well)...so pretty much, I will be getting a Lightweight, in lilac.
My question though is: Should I get it online/engraved or should I forgo the engraving and go to a store and get it? I know that some people have issues with the way the engraving is done from some places (I would be getting it from Allheart), and I don't want my parents to spend the extra $15 if it won't be worth it because a) it'll be a waste of money and b) it'll delay me getting it.
Does engraving your stethoscope work or do people still try to steal them?
People are always going to steal them whether it has. Engraving or not but what it dose let the person who to I'd if they wanted to return it. Rather than not know anything and give and just take it. So it makes them think twice. Before they take it
I've left my stethoscope laying around the unit while having to go into isolation rooms. It's engraved with my full name, and hasn't been stolen yet. I got the bell engraved instead of the tubing, though. You can switch tubing fairly easily.
Also, you've already gotten it, but the sound quality on the Classic II is a lot better than the lightweight version. There are girls in my clinical with the lightweights, and they have a lot of trouble hearing heart sounds.
I've left my stethoscope laying around the unit while having to go into isolation rooms. It's engraved with my full name, and hasn't been stolen yet. I got the bell engraved instead of the tubing, though. You can switch tubing fairly easily.
Also, you've already gotten it, but the sound quality on the Classic II is a lot better than the lightweight version. There are girls in my clinical with the lightweights, and they have a lot of trouble hearing heart sounds.
I actually like the Lightweight better than the Classic...at first, before I had tried both, but after I had ordered the Lightweight, I wondered if I had made the right decision, and now I definitely think that I did! But a lot of the answer to the "which stethoscope is best" question is whatever works best for you.
Chris NS
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People are always going to steal them whether it has. Engraving or not but what it dose let the person who to I'd if they wanted to return it. Rather than not know anything and give and just take it. So it makes them think twice. Before they take it