First Words
…thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician
by Glenn Feole, M.D.
"Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy
laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote
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September 21, 2014 Sunday
One five year old had chronic ear infections and it was pretty obvious that he had decreased hearing because of fluid in his ears. I decided to check his hearing with the audiogram just to document the degree of loss. The nurse would press a red button in her hand and then he would raise his hand if he heard the sound.
To everyone's surprise, his hearing was perfect, which would be a miracle because of the state of his ears. The Mother was suspicious and kept quizzing him.
“Did you really hear those sounds?”
He finally cracked under pressure and said, “No. I just watched her hands push the button.” We all laughed despite our disbelief. Finally, the mother wanted to know why he would cheat like that. He said,
“I had to watch her hands. I couldn’t hear the sounds.”
Westport, Connecticut 1990's
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