The invention is of a stethoscope cleansing unit and of the use of the
stethoscope cleansing unit as a novel business method for promoting a
marketer's logo and advertisement to medical personnel and patients in
the examining room or hospital. The system attaches such advertisements
to a useful and conveniently used stethoscope cleansing unit that will be
used by medical personnel to sterilize stethoscope diaphragms between
patient assessments, thereby preventing the spread of infectious
diseases. This apparatus can be utilized in a novel business method as a
way for marketers to distinguish their product from the myriad of others
by 1) attracting the attention of busy medical personnel during patient
examinations, which is the exact time that medical product marketers
would benefit most from such attention; and by 2) attracting the
attention of the patient through its presence in the examining room at a
time when the patient is typically waiting for attention and has time to
notice such advertisements.