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Author: Dr Stella Fulman
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Working from home was supposed to be the quiet life. No open-plan office hum, no grinding commuter train, no colleague three desks over who somehow treats every phone call like a public announcement. And yet — here’s the uncomfortable irony — the shift to remote work has quietly triggered one of the most overlooked hearing…
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Here’s a number that should stop you mid-scroll: by age 75, roughly half of all adults in the United States can’t hear well enough to hold an easy conversation [1]. One in three between 65 and 74 is already there. Presbycusis — the clinical name for age-related hearing loss — has always been treated like…
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Picture this. You roll over, grab your phone, hold it to your left ear — and hear nothing. Not muffled. Not quiet. Nothing. The other ear works fine, which almost makes it worse, because the contrast is terrifying. You assume it’s wax. Maybe allergies. You wait a day. Then two. By the time you sit…
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Fifteen years ago, nobody walked into my office asking about rechargeable hearing aids. Now? It’s the first sentence out of almost every patient’s mouth — before we’ve even pulled up the audiogram. The pitch sounds wonderful: drop your aids in a little dock at bedtime, wake up to a full charge, never buy another blister…
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Original Medicare still won’t pay for hearing aids — and about 90% of beneficiaries who struggle to hear don’t own a pair. After fifteen years fitting patients at our clinics, I can tell you: the coverage gap is the single biggest barrier they face.
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In over two decades of audiology practice, I’ve had patients describe hearing loss in almost every way imaginable. But there’s a particular kind of story that still stops me — the ones that start with “I woke up and something was just… off.” One ear quiet. Not ringing, not aching. Just gone. No warning, no…