LISTEN TO THOSE WHO HEAR TINNITUS SOUNDS

It was a meeting stymied by technical problems as organisers tried to increase Zoom capacity to accommodate the more than 500 who wanted to join the webinar. But a still not-too-shabby 200 people joined. The stone in the shoe patient is the person who wanders between specialists and is told they "will have to get used to it", no reasons offered as to why or how. Enter the audiology professional, someone such as Carlos Torres, one of the two coordinators of this training event. This stony framing is where the Catalan HCP based in the Dominican Republic locates the meaning of the tinnitus patient in the audiology sector.   Listen to the person hearing the ringing, buzzing, whistling, hissing, whooshing,...   Dr. Ramón Hernández, a Phoniatrics surgeon from Venezuela, emphasised that the first step for the audiology professional is to believe the patient and listen very respectfully to what they have to say, which may take a few...