To provide a stethoscope apparatus that can contribute to medical cares
that can eliminate anxieties of a patient as much as possible.A
stethoscope apparatus 10 according to the embodiment integrally mounts a
speaker 9 and a microphone 8; accordingly, the speaker 9 can reproduce
sounds obtained with the microphone 8. For instance, when a physician
explains the pathology and so on to a patient with the patient allowed
hearing sounds from a speaker, the patient can be diagnosed at ease more
than ever.