The SPARK program hypothesises that nothing turns off a kid more than some adult going into a sermonizing and lecturizing and a scarifying kind of a thing.

But as a rookie I felt like the designated shushee, the rube whose clacking machine would be banned at any moment.

“My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.

The left apical 4-chamber image is used for one measurement and for a “biplane” estimate (that averages values from orthogonal planes), either the right parasternal long-axis image (the authors' preference) or the left apical 2-chamber view (shown here) is also measured. […] Either a biplane (Simpson) method of discs or a 3D volumetric rendering is used for LV volume measurements in human echocardiography laboratories.