Silence is golden with hearing loss
18th April 2017
The public needs protection from hazardous levels of noise pollution.

It’s funny how things sometimes go full circle in life.
Forty years ago, I wrote a thesis on noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) for my Master’s degree in public health. Now, at the tail end of my career as a GP, I am embroiled in the topic again.
As GPs, we’ve all seen the far-reaching social consequences of deafness, and we understand the