title: [Auscultation of the heart: an art on the road to extinction].
abstract: Auscultation of the heart is a clinical art that allows the doctor to make accurate diagnoses with the skills after formal training. The technology efficiently complements the clinical diagnosis, so that the latter is insufficient without a clinical approach; on the other hand, when the clinical practice is replaced by technology, diagnosis and treatment is equally ineffective. The cult of technology has led to the gradual/ass of the ability of cardiac auscultation, and the doctor has lost a powerful tool with diagnostic potential.
authors.affiliation: Dirección de Enseñanza, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología «Ignacio Chávez», México, D.F., Mexico.
authors.forename: José F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Guadalajara Boo
mesh_terms: D006326:Heart Auscultation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans