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Wow Mark,
This is a tough one. Have you asked yourself how this would change your life now if you were to talk to her? Would it give you closure on this?
I am saddened and alarmed that this person is still practicing !! If I were you, I would make an effort to contact this audiologist (I am assuming she is still licensed) to ask your questions and then let it go. Too much time has probably gone by in terms of pursuing legal options. I would personally want to be assured that she is now on the straight and narrow and has someone directly supervising her caseload.
Let me digress for a bit; I am a pediatric audiologist.
I have a post- lingual hearing loss ( I was about 5) that was discovered by my mother because "I could not hear in the dark". I think the first hearing test I had,
was reportedly within the normal range. However,my mother was not convinced and very soon after I was diagnosed with a moderate to severe cookie bite loss bilaterally. I was fitted right after diagnosis (with body aids- Yuck). I am a great lip reader and generally people are shocked that I actually wear hearing aids!! I say this because I was fitted promptly after diagnosis and no significant time elapsed w/out amplification. Early audiological intervention is critical for every reason there is.
Let me know what decision you make.
All the best
Susan Kilduff-Katsoulis
Mark Campbell <MarkCampbell@...> wrote:
Dear Group,I need advice. I am in a situation that I don't know what to do about. I was misdiagnosed for 5 years (from birth to 5 years old) by an audiologist who retested my hearing every six months to a year, and always got "normal" hearing - I had moderate to severe hearing loss. However, all those years, I was without sound, it wasn't until I was five that I recieved my first pair of hearing aids from a different audiologist that did properly diagnose me.I never knew this audiologist's name. However, I did know that she was fired from her job because of what had happened. I also beleive that other children were misdiagnosed which also furthered her dismissal. However, recently, I did find my old audiograms and reports from my first five years and found out this person's name. I did some research... This person is still a practicing audiologist in a private facility. I know that 20 years have gone by, and lots could have changed. I want to contact this person and speak with them. I just want to make sure that this person learned from her mistakes and is now competent. I also want to learn from this person, on how I was misdisdiagnosed. I just want the chance to talk. I'm not mad at what happened and how I was affected. I just want to talk to this person for some reason.My need for advice is for this... should I do anything? Should I leave it alone?Thanks for all who read this...Mark
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