What is Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital?
The '''Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital''' is a teaching hospital in [[Paris]]. The Necker Hospital started in 1778 and in 1920 it joined with the Sick Children's Hospital (''Hôpital des Enfants Malades''), the oldest [[children's hospital]] in the Western world, founded in 1801. which was next to it. At first it was run by the Catholic [[Sisters of Charity]]. The French physician René Laennec invented the [[stethoscope]] in 1816 while he was working there.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Roguin|first=Ariel|date=September 2006|title=Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781–1826): The Man Behind the Stethoscope|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1570491/|journal=Clinical Medicine and Research|language=en|volume=4|issue=3|pages=230|doi=10.3121/cmr.4.3.230|pmid=17048358}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:University hospitals in France]] [[Category:Hospitals in Paris]]