New York - The Hearing Journal has unveiled The Hearing Post, a unique new blog designed for hearing healthcare providers and anyone else interested in better hearing. The Hearing Post offers a constantly changing supply of information and ideas that are available nowhere else in print or online.
Visitors to the site are invited to respond to what they see there or to submit their own articles, which will add to the flow of provocative material. One section expected to draw a lot of readers and contributors is entitled Elephants in the Field. It's a forum for opinion pieces on hearing and balance that tackle controversial topics that people tend to tiptoe around.
Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn, a prominent audiologist who started a blog for patients in her practice in Tucson, has brought together a diverse and talented group of audiologists and hearing instrument specialists as section editors. Each of them is responsible for developing news and communications in an area of special interest to them and to their contributing writers.
For example, in Bleacher Beat, Gus Mueller, presents information and views on topics related to hearing and sports. Ray Katz, a veteran hearing instrument specialist, will be reporting in On the Road Again on hearing care practitioners that he encounters in his travels. Ross Roeser, the long-time director of the Callier Center, is turning his focus on professional education in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The Post features many other sections, including Deaf Leppard, Marshall Chasin's report on music and hearing care;vestibular expert Alan Desmond's Balancing Act;a science blog called Of Mice & Men & Zebrafish edited by O'neil Guthrie;My Foreign Affairs, where Robert Traynor explores the international scene;Quick Change Artist, edited by Judy Huch, which takes on private-practice issues;and The Squaller, whose editor, Jacque Scholl, is a pediatric audiologist.
Along with overseeing the overall blog, Holly Hosford-Dunn edits a section, Wealth of Nations, that examines the economics of hearing healthcare.
The Hearing Post will continue to expand as new editors and contributors come on board to blog on additional topics. In an interview that will appear in the September Ear Hears e-newsletter, Hosford-Dunn invited more people to get involved with the blog, especially practitioners who are relatively new to the profession and have fresh perspectives to bring to The Hearing Post. To subscribe to the newsletter and read the interview, click on The Ear Hears tab on the HJ web site, www.thehearingjournal.com.
