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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Sometimes I wonder about doctors...
I went to an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor this morning because my left ear has been feeling quite plugged up for the last few days. I've even had to turn up the volume on my hearing aid for that ear.
So I sit down in his chair and he inspects my ear drum. (He's got a neat video hook-up so I could see it too!) Clean as a whistle!  He does both sides just to check.
Then he hooks me up to the audiometer to test my hearing, which of course is really bad. I mean, why else would I be wearing hearing aids, right? After pressing the little button for three different types of tests, the computer spits out the paper which the doctors examines, turns to me and says, "Gee, you don't hear so well, do you?" 
Golly, no, Doc. I just come to your office because I love your choice of magazines in the waiting room! Sheesh!
Stitchawl |
I think Audiologists must be trained like that, everyone I have seen is exactly the same, except for one who asked if women complained that I didn't listen to then, she told me I had a good excuse, I'm deaf in the range that most women talk at. I've got severe tinnitus in both ears, all those years at the range using cheap hearing protection I guess.
What is it with doctors relying on their fancy equipment instead of doing an exam? I went to get an update for the reading glasses and they couldn't give me a normal exam so I had the electronic automatic whiz bang machine thingy and after seeing the results were so different that the prescription I was wearing, I decided to go somewhere else. The normal exam showed the machine to be out a lot, -30 on one side and +20 on the other.
Funny thing was when I went in for a test involving a little camera, they gave me a dvd copy of the exam, weird, nasty and fun to show unsuspecting house guests
