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Amanda Mason - How Hearing Treatment Affects Everyday People
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Amanda Mason is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience. During her tenure as a social worker, she worked in healthcare in managerial and clinical roles. She has worked through her hearing loss through consistent treatment. She is married and is a proud mother of two children.
In this episode…There is a large divide between medical advice from professionals and advice from other patients. While the expertise of audiologists is most important, it can be comforting to hear from other people struggling with hearing loss. Amanda Mason is experienced with her own hearing loss, having struggled with it since birth. She has overcome many challenges by receiving different hearing treatments and technology. Her story serves as a powerful and informed example for others, and now she shares that story with you. In this episode of the ListenUp! Podcast, Dr. Mark Syms invites Amanda Mason, a patient of his, to discuss her own journey with hearing loss. They talk about her early childhood, how hearing aids have changed over the years, and when she finally made the jump to try a cochlear implant. They also touch on the real world effects of both her hearing loss and the treatments she received.
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