The deaf doctor.
Cardiopulmonary auscultation and considerable difficulty in hearing lecturers are major problems which face prospective deaf medical students. As a result, their opportunities for obtaining a medical degree have been, until recently, severely limited. However, rapid advance in electronics research have now made available to them a suitably amplified electronic stethoscope and a free-field radio transmission system.
D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical; D006310:Hearing Aids; D034381:Hearing Loss; D006312:Hearing Loss, Bilateral; D006326:Heart Auscultation / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans