The Heart Murmur She Almost Missed

During her third-year clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anita Patel pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just the steady lub-dub she had memorized from textbooks. Her attending physician, Dr. Marcus Webb, listened next. "There," he said quietly, placing the stethoscope back in her ears and repositioning it over the exact spot. "Between the first and second sounds.…