I found the article about services at dental practices for deaf people so interesting (Vital spring 2010; 43–44).
I know how it feels to be sitting at the waiting room and missing my name being called out but I am so lucky that my dental practice know me so well (considering I have been attending the same one since I was tiny!) and they are aware that they need to come to me personally to let me know they are ready for me.
May I see more deaf awareness in both dental practices and the hospital? You'd be amazed that I go to the audiology department for my hearing test and the staff call out names and half of us never hear it! How can they call themselves audiology department?!
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Spalton, T. More deaf awareness please. Vital 7, 5 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/vital1164
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