I recently had a hearing test. I’m in Florida. In Florida, by LAW if there’s more than 30dB difference between the hearing in the two ears then the doctor has to send you for an MRI. The doctor was angry saying, “The legislature has no business telling me how to practice medicine. Don’t worry about this. They won’t find anything.” Two weeks later I get a call from his nurse. “You have a small meningioma. (The size of a large grape.) It’s no big deal. Just get an MRI in another year to keep an eye on it.” The doctor refused to speak to me so I managed to get a referral from my GP to a brain surgeon. He said, “Sure, it’s benign now. But because of the location, leaning on the brain’s central core and the skull, if it changes personality there’s nothing we can do. You need radiation.”
This thing had not only destroyed the hearing in one ear, it also affects my balance pretty badly. Thank you legislature for playing doctor.
Whoa! Yes, thank goodness.