You can hear the heart murmur

I am in the process of going through routine check-ups of my body. Although it is true that my lifestyle has in no manner followed the 'my body is my temple' school of thought, I assumed that given certain factors (that I don't smoke, do drugs, limit my alcohol to social consumption and have no discernable illness other than megalomania) the long overdue M.O.T. on my body would not reveal anything alarming. So I was not prepared to hear what my doctor had to say.
"Hm... Did you know you have a heart murmur?" He asked.
"No," I said, resisting the urge to jump up and shake him, yelling at the top of my voice, "A WHAT?"
"Well. You do. I think you need to have an EKG. Schedule it with the nurse at the front when you go out," he said. "And it's nothing serious. People with your build and height usually have this sort of thing."

I went and scheduled the appointment, laughing nervously as I said to the nurse, "The doctor wants me to schedule an EKG appointment with you." But all the while, I was thinking, 'What the heck? Me have a heart murmur? Is this doctor a quack?'

I went home and said to M. calmly, "I have a heart murmur. I'm going to have an EKG next next week."
"The doctor just said you need a check, right?" M. said. He is not the type to blow things up. I nodded, and sat down in a corner to think about why it was that I had a heart murmur. A congenital defect? I was certainly not stressed enough to cause one. Some sort of infection? Why? In the end, I just ignored whatever it was that I found on the Google search threatening potential heart surgery. But it was strange no other doctor had told me I have one all these years. My friend Q. told me she thought the doctor is just using this as an excuse to claim more money from the insurance company. But surely you can't have an unjustified EKG?

The weeks passed by quickly enough, and I found myself wearing a paper gown, my chest slathered in cold gel, while the EKG technician pressed down hard with a scanner onto my skin. We had a random conversation that resulted in her telling me about this friend of hers who studied in London to become a lawyer and ended up a partner in a New York law firm (why is it that when you tell someone you are a lawyer, they assume you must become a partner? Is there no hope for off-track associates to become something else?) while I wondered what was going to be the results. The doctor came in holding the scan results in his hand.
"You have a murmur on both sides of your heart, but it's nothing serious. It was quite a boring study, actually," he said. He told me to go home and not see him again.

The quick to condemn are the first to fall. I have since learnt that such 'innocent' heart murmurs as mine are quite common, but that it usually takes further tests to determine that they are not caused by structural problems of the heart or any type of disease. Perhaps because the innocent heart murmurs are so common, most doctors ignore it unless there are other symptoms of heart problems. At any rate, I'm glad my problem is only that you can hear 'a whooshing, humming or rasping sound between the heartbeat sounds, caused by noisy bloodflow within the heart'.