Hearing Aids: High-Tech Help For Hearing Loss

摘要

"Your giraffe ate my suspenders?" At least that's what I thought my wife said. Adjusting to my moderate hearing loss, Andrea understands that I'm saying what I thought I heard. She repeats her last statement a little louder. That's when I know I've misheard. But I don't always know when I've misheard. And sometimes I just don't hear at all. Twenty-eight million Americans, one in 10, suffer from some sort of permanent hearing loss. More than half (15 million) are under the age of 45. Despite the fact that I'm a 54-year-old family doctor teaching at a medical school in upstate New York, I didn't know I had any hearing loss until seven years ago. My family doctor asked when I'd last had a hearing test. "When I was in fourth grade," I replied.