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Metz’s Medicine and Audiology – Part 2

by Mike Metz Getting back to our roots, James Jerger’s editorial in a recent trade publication (Jerger, J, Audiology Today, Is It Time to Panic? Sep/Oct, 2016), raises some issues that may prove pivotal to the field. And impending changes to the scope and practice of audiology may get some help from a peculiar…

Does Medicine Need Audiology? Part 1

November 14, 2016November 14, 2016Gael Hannan 5 Comments Amyn Amlani PhD / Audiology / ENTs and Audiologists / Hearing tests / Medicine and audiology / Patient care / PCAST / PSAPs

By Mike Metz A friend recently asked me for an audiology referral because he had a unilateral hearing problem along with some other rather vague symptoms. I sent him on but then began thinking of the differences in audiology now versus audiology in years past. Many audiologists work in a medical office setting, overseen by…