The Murmur She Almost Missed

During her third year at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Desai pressed a stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual. Just the steady thump of a healthy heart. Her attending physician, Dr. Reeves, a silver-haired cardiologist with thirty years of experience, gently took the stethoscope back and repositioned it two inches to the left. "Now close your eyes," he said.…