Old vs. New Medical Technology On One Picture

A brilliant image was released in a new article, Tenuous Tether, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Here is the short abstract:

Though it introduced a bit more distance than immediate auscultation, the stethoscope kept the physician tethered to the patient. Today, however, the tether is fraying. How can we use technology to bring physicians closer to patients rather than making them more remote?

On the left:  Laennac at a Patient’s Bedside, by Théobald Chartran, 1816. On the right: The Authors Demonstrating Modern Electronic Auscultation, 2015.