I think that speaking with this individual might help with closure for yourself. Knowing that you were not the only person that this happened to, and that this individual obtained the same "normal" results from you for 5 years running is pretty disturbing. Since you know that she was dismissed from this position as a result of the misdiagnoses, I would hope that she would have the integrity to remedy whatever her diagnostic inadequacies were.
Playing devil's advocate: I'm not sure that she will remember you specifically, or any of the other hearing losses that she missed; though if she was dismissed from this position she is likely to remember the reasons why. Since she is no longer employed by this facility, I would doubt that she has any way to look back at and review her records of your results unless you forward them to her, if you want to talk to her in that respect.
As the (new mother) of a baby with hearing loss (my 5 month old daughter has a bilateral profound loss), this scenario is extremely disturbing. I would hate to learn that there is a possibility that this could continue to happen. I hope that maybe chatting with her can help you obtain closure. If you do, please let us know how it goes. Good luck.
Carrie
-----Original Message-----
From: MarkCampbell@...
To: HOHAudiologists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [HOHAudiologists] Hi all
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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