A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure....
THE APROCRYPHA, ECCLESIASTICUS 6:14
For more than 25 years many individual audiologists and many individual otolaryngologists have enjoyed what can best be described as a mutually beneficial professional partnership. Such partnerships have grown and thrived principally in medical environments where audiologists and otolaryngologists share a common concern, the hearing handicapped. In a very real sense it may be said that both professions have benefited from these individual partnerships.
Otolaryngology, as a profession, has benefited from the clinical expertise of the trained audiologist and from the extent to which clinical applications of audiologic research have expanded sophistication in both the diagnostic evaluation of hearing disorder, and the provision of aural rehabilitation services.
Audiology, as a profession, has benefited immeasurably from close individual association between audiologists and otolaryngologists. By giving the audiologist an
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