Setting The Terms of Reference For The Brand of Hearing Healthcare, Part 2
Editor’s Note: Today’s post from Geoff Cooling is Part 2 on the Brand of Hearing Healthcare. Collaboration Across the Profession In order to change the brand of hearing healthcare, we as a profession internationally need to collaborate. This is something that needs to be done through professional organisations across the world. I have chosen the term…
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Winning the War against Hearing Loss, part 4: Hearing Well with a Cell Phone
By: Bob Martin, AuD Miracles happen in our field. Last time I discussed Kim who, thanks to her hearing aids, was able to work in a noisy bar and save her family’s home. This week, I want you to meet David, a real estate agent with severe hearing loss. In the past he could not…
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What I Learned from Popeye’s Chicken
One of the groups I belong to is the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO). This group held its 18th annual conference in Phoenix at the end of April. It was very inspirational, as WPO conferences often are. Among the keynote speakers were Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeye’s Chicken; Reshma Sujani, developer of “Girls Who Code”; and…
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Small changes to go “Green”
I started to think on Earth Day about what we do for sustainability in our offices. Part of this comes from reading a friend’s book, “Your Mother Called (Mother Earth)…You’d better call her back!” Gina Murphy-Darling is known as “Mrs. Green” here in Tucson and around the country. She has an Internet-based radio show every…
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Embezzlement in the Office: It Can Happen to You
This following story is true, and it happened to me. It has now been more than a year since this sad episode occurred, and I would like to say I have recovered. But if truth be told, this case has changed my life forever. Some wounds go very deep. Sarah and I worked together for…
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Before Christmas Gael Hannan wrote a blog about her wish list to Santa. One item on the list was to get material from her audiologist that didn’t offer purchase promotions for new products or upgrades around the Holidays. We take a page out of her list and have for years. In October we mail out…
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