Yes, it's not brain surgery or anything like that. It's really quite simple medically speaking.
Southfella and Mrs. Bucket, yes I agree. CI is awesome (and is prolly a GODSEND for those with progressive loss) but people need to be VERY careful and very skeptical if they are ambigious canidates. I see a lot of Big Pharma style "selling" going on, as well as thinking that someone needs the "best cutting edge hearing device out there"
