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A Study on Identical Twins

GEORGE L. PATTEE, M.D.; LEE A. CARY, M.A.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1957;65(3):269-274.

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It has been our experience that most patients who wear hearing aids have worn them for some time before consulting us. Occasionally we find that the aid the patient is wearing is not satisfactory and recommend that certain changes be made. They return to their hearing aid dealer to have the changes made, or perhaps to buy a new aid, and usually will not follow our advice to return for retesting to see whether the changes have resulted in any improvement.

In Denver we are fortunate to have the Denver Hearing Society, which is sponsored by the Community Chest. It has a full-time audiologist who gives individual and group instruction in all phases of auditory training and rehabilitation. Even though the charges are minimal ($2.00 an hour for individual instruction and 50 cents an hour for group instruction), most of our patients wearing aids will not follow our recommendation to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Denver

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept. 3, 1956.

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