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Only answer this if you have had both male and female audiologists... Did you have one particular favourite and were they male or female, and was your least favourite male or female - and in both cases, why?
 
martyns said:
Only answer this if you have had both male and female audiologists... Did you have one particular favourite and were they male or female, and was your least favourite male or female - and in both cases, why?
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I have had both. Throughout childhood, I had male audies. I have a female audie with my CIs and my last HA. I have only had two audies out of the many that I wanted to keep going back too - one was a male and one was a female.

Why!
Male - He was my audie for many years. He found funding for my last HA and FM system. Since I could not afford more HA he really helped to make them
l-a-s-t. He was also a college professor and a great one. He listened and was encouraging.

Female - For my CIs, I have my current audie. She is just simply the best. She listens, she helps, she is fanastic. I answers my e-mail within a day. She knows my limits and finds a way around them. I can't handle the beep test with mapping. The high tones really get me, so she found a way around it and makes the sounds comfortable.

So it is not the male or female, but one who listens and understands.
 
"but one who listens and understands"

that the key thing you need in a audiologist as long they have adequate training not by superior education.:bowdown:
 
Growing up, I hated going to the audiologist office so I guess it didnt matter if they were male or female. I hated the anxiety I would get when they tested my hearing by covering their mouths when they say words, using those beeps and so on. I was in denial about my deafness growing up and going to the audie forced me to face it.

I guess for now, I dont care but everytime I go, they always tell me I should get a CI and I do not like that at all. If I wanted a CI, I will inquire about it but otherwise leave it alone and do what I came for.
 
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I never had that issue most audiologists I go to do not deal with CI's and do not want even to talk about CI's. My hearing loss was just a normal part of me. What I did hate was all the men in white coats trying to figure out if I was mentally challenged or had a hearing loss when I was younger. They were telling my mother to wait a year or two to my disadvantage. After about the 11th doctor my mother send to me the pieces started to fall in place. I still remember the whole army of doctors looking at me scaring me shitless about something I could not understand at the time.
Currently the audiologists I working with are along the best I have worked with and both of them know sign language as well.
 
The audie in the hearing aid business I frequent for minor repairs, etc knows not a whit about the CI; 90 to 95% of that hearing aid center's clientele are older hearing people losing their hearing. There is absolutely no understanding of the deaf culture in that place.
 
Okay, sometimes I do strange things. This post set my mind in gear. My favorite audie left my town and moved to Florida. He left to set up an audiological program. I found his e-mail to send a thank you to him for listening and really working with me. Guess what he e-mailed back and remembers me. What a neat day!
 
My very first audie was male. Otherwise, they've all been females.
 
UGH! My first audi from the time I was a wee lil one was a Male audi and I just did not care for him, probably because I was a kid. I've had both male and female audi but my preference is my female audi for my ci, she listens and she tries to make sense and she is awesome :) However my HA audi is male and he did an awesome job, but he never told me what he was doing.
 
both male and female while going through the public school system. The female one while I was in school was my favorite. Almost always, my new earmolds would be the perfect fit and such. But the male audiologist was great too.

When I got my first digital hearing aid in 9th grade, I got it through the audiology center at the University of Wyoming. Was female audiologist. About a year or so later, a male audiologist from the UW moved here and opened his own office, so I started going to him for all hearing aid issues. He's been great for the most part, but for a while the front office serivice was lousy, not always calling when they said they would and they didn't always update my personal info in the computer system either.

In June I think, I saw another audiologist, female. She's ok, but I didn't like what she did to my hearing aid so I went back to the male (they both are in the same location now). The male audiologist has always been great to me. He's even gone to office on a Saturday morning (when the office is closed every weekend) just to adjust my hearing aid so I could hear well enough at my sister's wedding which was that Saturday night. How many audiologists actually do that?
 
If I had a male audie that looked like Brad Pitt or Matthew Mccougly with a body like that, U bet I would make appts to have my hearing tested once a month! :giggle:

Just being silly...I honestly dont remember my audis growing up due to my problems growing up. I think I mostly had females.
 
cdmeggers said:
both male and female while going through the public school system. The female one while I was in school was my favorite. Almost always, my new earmolds would be the perfect fit and such. But the male audiologist was great too.

When I got my first digital hearing aid in 9th grade, I got it through the audiology center at the University of Wyoming. Was female audiologist. About a year or so later, a male audiologist from the UW moved here and opened his own office, so I started going to him for all hearing aid issues. He's been great for the most part, but for a while the front office serivice was lousy, not always calling when they said they would and they didn't always update my personal info in the computer system either.

In June I think, I saw another audiologist, female. She's ok, but I didn't like what she did to my hearing aid so I went back to the male (they both are in the same location now). The male audiologist has always been great to me. He's even gone to office on a Saturday morning (when the office is closed every weekend) just to adjust my hearing aid so I could hear well enough at my sister's wedding which was that Saturday night. How many audiologists actually do that?[/QUOTE]


That is a keeper! Hope you still have this audie.
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vallee said:
cdmeggers said:
both male and female while going through the public school system. The female one while I was in school was my favorite. Almost always, my new earmolds would be the perfect fit and such. But the male audiologist was great too.

When I got my first digital hearing aid in 9th grade, I got it through the audiology center at the University of Wyoming. Was female audiologist. About a year or so later, a male audiologist from the UW moved here and opened his own office, so I started going to him for all hearing aid issues. He's been great for the most part, but for a while the front office serivice was lousy, not always calling when they said they would and they didn't always update my personal info in the computer system either.

In June I think, I saw another audiologist, female. She's ok, but I didn't like what she did to my hearing aid so I went back to the male (they both are in the same location now). The male audiologist has always been great to me. He's even gone to office on a Saturday morning (when the office is closed every weekend) just to adjust my hearing aid so I could hear well enough at my sister's wedding which was that Saturday night. How many audiologists actually do that?[/QUOTE]


That is a keeper! Hope you still have this audie.
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Amen! I think my current audie is the best.
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vallee said:
cdmeggers said:
both male and female while going through the public school system. The female one while I was in school was my favorite. Almost always, my new earmolds would be the perfect fit and such. But the male audiologist was great too.

When I got my first digital hearing aid in 9th grade, I got it through the audiology center at the University of Wyoming. Was female audiologist. About a year or so later, a male audiologist from the UW moved here and opened his own office, so I started going to him for all hearing aid issues. He's been great for the most part, but for a while the front office serivice was lousy, not always calling when they said they would and they didn't always update my personal info in the computer system either.

In June I think, I saw another audiologist, female. She's ok, but I didn't like what she did to my hearing aid so I went back to the male (they both are in the same location now). The male audiologist has always been great to me. He's even gone to office on a Saturday morning (when the office is closed every weekend) just to adjust my hearing aid so I could hear well enough at my sister's wedding which was that Saturday night. How many audiologists actually do that?[/QUOTE]


That is a keeper! Hope you still have this audie.
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Oh I do. Any issue with my hearing aid or earmold and I make an appointment with him. :)
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vallee said:
cdmeggers said:
both male and female while going through the public school system. The female one while I was in school was my favorite. Almost always, my new earmolds would be the perfect fit and such. But the male audiologist was great too.

When I got my first digital hearing aid in 9th grade, I got it through the audiology center at the University of Wyoming. Was female audiologist. About a year or so later, a male audiologist from the UW moved here and opened his own office, so I started going to him for all hearing aid issues. He's been great for the most part, but for a while the front office serivice was lousy, not always calling when they said they would and they didn't always update my personal info in the computer system either.

In June I think, I saw another audiologist, female. She's ok, but I didn't like what she did to my hearing aid so I went back to the male (they both are in the same location now). The male audiologist has always been great to me. He's even gone to office on a Saturday morning (when the office is closed every weekend) just to adjust my hearing aid so I could hear well enough at my sister's wedding which was that Saturday night. How many audiologists actually do that?[/QUOTE]


That is a keeper! Hope you still have this audie.
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Wow! That was a sweet audi!
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When I was growing up, I did not want to face the fact I was losing my hearing so I would trick the audiologists. The men were o.k. The women were on to me.So i like the men better.
 
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