Conditioned Play Audiometry: It Should Be All Fun and Games

摘要

As hearing health professionals, we are often confined to the clinic all day, every day of the week, and can find ourselves longing for the opportunity to be outside to soak in some sun, stretch our legs, and get in a brisk run (at our age, though, it's probably far more accurate to call it a deliberate jog or even a glorified walk). To a busy clinician, these types of activities can certainly fall under the description of "piay time." With that in mind, we were recently amused when one of our teenaged patients, also a member on his school's cross-country team, bemoaned the fact that he had to run for 30 minutes during the fifth period of school each day. "Are you kidding me?" we thought. Who wouldn't love the opportunity to take a break from work in the middle of the day?