Articles

		UK Health Professionals with Hearing Loss
Books and Articles

	Books When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes. Memoirs of a Deaf Doctor. Zazove, Philip.1993. Galluadet University Press, Washington DC. ISBN 1-56368-024-6 Leave No Nurse Behind: Nurses working with disAbilities. Maheady, Donna 2006 iUniverse: Lincoln, Nebraska. In particular, see chapter 8 "The little Engine That Could: Nursing with Profound Deafness" written by Morag MacDonald, RN, MSW. ISBN 0595396496 See review in Nursing Standard. Impairment to Empowerment. Managing your hearing loss. Levene, Bunty and Tait, Val. 2005. Hearing Concern, London. ISBN 0-9551365-0-4 Various articles, alphabetical by author Anon. Helen Brooke Taussig Web article about pioneering deaf cardiologist. 1898-1986 Atherton R & Dent A. Training deaf clinical psychologists. Clinical Psychology 2003; 32:17 Bond E M & Kvalsvig A. Letters: Follow up of people fitted with hearing aids. BMJ 2002; 325:1304. Two letters - personal experience & advice. Dent A & Atherton R. A sign of our times: clinical psychologists' awareness, concerns and interest in supervising a deaf trainee. Clinical Psychology 2004: 33:30 Hamilton W & Bradley N. Self regulation at work: a case study. BMJ 1999; 319:585. GP with hearing loss assesses fitness to practice. Kalamangalam G P. Living History. BMJ 2004; 329:169. Brief article mentioning Helen Brooke Taussig. Kvalsvig A. Ask the elephant. (pdf) (html) Lancet, 2003; 362:2079-80. *Highly recommended.* (You many need to log in to access The Lancet. Registration is free.) Mercer S. Career development for doctors with a disability BMJ 1998; 317 (7154):S2 Rafferty J. Champion of deaf people. BMJ Career Focus 2003;327:s189 Article about "Philip Zazove, professor,author and role model" - and deaf. Redstone C. You really listen to me: Life as a doctor with a hearing loss. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:128-129 PDF Ward C. A murmur in my ear. Student BMJ ?1999 A medical student with hearing loss develops her own stethoscope.
	AMPHL articles Follow this link to a library of articles by, about and relevant to health professionals with hearing loss, of which two are: Morris, R. (2001). "HOW TO COPE WITH SCOPES" or 'Stethoscopes and Hearing Aids - What are the Options?' BeyondHearingAids.com Rennert, N., Morris, B., and Barrere, C.C. (2004, February). How to cope with scopes: Stethoscope selection and use with hearing aids and CIs [PDF]. The Hearing Review, 34-75. (More recent)
	BMJ Careers Focus series - Training and working with disabilities A series of articles to highlight the experiences ofdoctors and medical students with disabilities and illnessesin the run up to the DDA legislation changes in October 2004. Links to the individual articles: Redstone C. You really listen to me: Life as a doctor with a hearing loss. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:128-129 PDF Stiff R E. Life as a visually impaired doctor. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:15-16. Parkins D. Experience of a single "epileptic" fit. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:98 Impact on career decisions. Howard E. Coping financially with long term sickness. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:107-108. Parkins D. Adjusting to life as a doctor with a colostomy. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:108-109. Morgan M. Returning to work with chronic fatigue syndrome. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:118 Anon. Life as a doctor with Asperger's syndrome. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:130 Anon. Working as a doctor with a chronic illness. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:67. Spalding T. Practising medicine when you have colour blindness BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:126-127 Cohen D & Hebert K. Access all areas. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:78-79. The impact of the extended Disability Discrimination Act: what services providers should be doing to remove access barriers for their patients and staff. Cohen D & Hebert K. Equality and diversity in the workplace. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:116-117. "... how employers should go beyond the rhetoric of equal opportunities in employment." Carter J, Cohen D & Herbert K. Tips on …Accessible recruitment. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:117 Cohen D & Hebert K. Training in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine for people with disabilities. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:123-125 Training requirements and barriers. Goddard K. Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:131 Payne H. How the postgraduate deanery can help doctors with disabilities. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:132-133 Anon. Addiction and recovery. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:38 A" doctor candidly tells us how his alcohol addiction led to opiate addiction (including intravenous injection), incarceration, and recovery." Other BMJ Careers Focus articles: Atkinson J. Tales from a doctor with bilateral leg amputations. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:88. Ayeni O. Fifteen minutes with...The founder of the Canadian Association of Physicians with Disabilities. (Ashok Muzumdar) BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:134 Banerjee A. The irony of it all. BMJ Career Focus 2004; 329:49 A PRHO in gastroenterology shares his own experience of serious illness. MacDonald R. How does the BMJ careers chronic illness matching scheme work and is it confidential? BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:102 Villanueva T. Paralympic medal winner. BMJ Career Focus 2004;329:17 Article about Portuguese paralympic swimmer and medical student Leila Marques.