title: What if ... you're examining your first deaf patient?
authors.affiliation: Southcoast Hospitals Group, Fall River, Mass. 02720, USA. goodspeedr@southcoast.org
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goodspeed
authors.forename: Bruce Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D003144:Communication Barriers; D003638:Deafness; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012813:Sign Language