What Broke My Father’s Heart
How putting in a pacemaker wrecked a family’s life. When (the doctor) suggested the pacemaker for the second time, my father was too stroke-damaged to discuss, and perhaps even to weigh, his tradeoffs. The decision fell to my mother — anxious to relieve my father’s pain, exhausted with caregiving, deferential to doctors and no expert on high-tech medicine. She said yes. One of the most important medical decisions of my father’s life was over in minutes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20pacemaker-t.html
Ultrasound
http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P01298
http://en.wikipedia.org/Ultrasound
Purchasing a Hearing Aid
Purchasing a Hearing Aid
A Consumer Checklist
http://www.hearingloss.org/learn/docs/HLAAHearingAidChecklist_4-14-2009.pdf
Buying a Hearing Aid? You’ve Got a Lot to Learn
BOB BUCKWALTER, a retired pastor in Williamstown, Mass., bought his first pair of hearing aids in January.
Like most people suffering from gradual hearing loss, he had resisted the idea for years. But, after talking with people who have benefited from aids and doing research to find a nearby audiologist, Mr. Buckwalter was ready to take the plunge.
Screening Tool May Help Identify Abnormal Blood Pressure in Children and Teens
A simplified pediatric blood pressure table may simplify screening for potentially abnormal blood pressures in children and adolescents.
http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/703958?src=cmemp
Purchasing a Hearing Aid
Purchasing a Hearing Aid
A Consumer Checklist
http://www.hearingloss.org/learn/docs/HLAAHearingAidChecklist_4-14-2009.pdf
