Category Archives: Health and Fitness

Why an Educated Patient is a Healthy Patient

In days past, the relationship between doctor and patient was governed by unquestioned norms. The doctor was the authority – an expert whose judgment and decisions were beyond reproach. And the patient? Well, the patient was passive – a receiver of care and ward of the doctor.

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How Evidence-Based Medicine is Revolutionizing Healing

There’s a reason why medical colleges are staffed with experts in physiology, chemistry, biology and a host of other relevant academic disciplines. Medicine is a science – and we rightly think of our doctors as healer-scientists par excellance.

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Do Anti-Aging Treatments Work?

Neither modern medicine nor the most intrepid of explorers has yet stumbled on the fountain of youth. The fact, unfortunate or not, is that everybody ages. There’s no getting around the passage of time.

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Being Proactive to Prevent Hearing Loss

Education is a very significant part of the service that Miracle-Ear board certified hearing specialists provide, day-in and day-out. For the hearing industry as a whole, education is a major challenge to surmount. Most people that suffer from hearing loss don’t take the necessary steps to get the help that they desperately need. They may delay their testing or even deny they are experiencing any difficulties. In addition, many people don’t realize what common noises from their environment can do permanent damage to their hearing. Patrick Leedy, a Miracle-Ear hearing center owner in Lancaster, PA, explains what common noises contribute to hearing loss and how everyone should keep tabs on their hearing.

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Advanced Hearing Aid Technology in Lancaster

Patrick Leedy has spent most of his life around hearing loss and over 24 years of his professional career in the hearing aid industry. As a Miracle-Ear hearing center owner in Lancaster, PA, he has seen a dramatic improvement not only in their product line but in the range and quality of services they’re able to offer their patients on a daily basis.

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How Hearing Loss Affects Your Loved Ones

Hearing loss has always been a part of Patrick Leedy’s life in one way or another. Patrick’s mother suffered from hearing degeneration early in his life and he has worked to understand and help alleviate the hardships of hearing loss for others ever since.

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Improve Your Hearing Health with a Comprehensive Free Hearing Test

Good hearing health is something that many of us overlook. “It’s a very important part of your medical records. A lot of people neglect that,” says James Cash of Miracle-Ear. If you are considering getting a hearing test in SW Florida, but are hesitant for whatever reason, Cash says you are not alone. “A lot of people are afraid to get tested,” he says. “They kind of self-diagnose themselves and say ‘Oh yeah, I have hearing loss.’ The best thing to do is go get tested so you can find out exactly what’s going on.”

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Suffer from Hearing Loss? Visit Your SW Florida Hearing Center

Having trouble understanding those around you? If poor hearing is keeping you from enjoying normal daily activities such as talking on the phone or watching television, it’s time to address your hearing concerns with a visit to your local hearing center in SW Florida.

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High Definition Hearing: Enjoy Better Hearing with Today’s Advanced Hearing Aids

Hearing aids have come a long way in the last decade, says James Cash of Miracle-Ear. “It’s gone from the dinosaur ages into the high definition world,” he says. If you are shopping for hearing aids in SW Florida, you may be surprised to learn about some of the advancements in hearing aid technology. Here Cash offers some insight into what you can expect from today’s hearing aids.

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Technology and Hearing Aids

Richard Wagner, a Miracle-Ear franchisee who owns hearing centers in and around Orange County and the Los Angeles areas, did not initially have a desire to work in the hearing industry. Even though he has suffered from a hearing loss since he was nine years old, he was the franchise owner of another type of business before joining Miracle-Ear. However, he grew impatient with the medical community telling him there was no option to improve his hearing and remedy his hearing loss; the medical professionals never shared with Wagner that he might benefit from wearing hearing aids.

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