Get ready to have your mind blown! The second day of the AAA Conference in Nashville brings us a futuristic conversation with Dave Fabry, PhD, and Jason Galster, Phd – except the future is now! Emerging technology in hearing instruments may very well take audiologists to paces we have never been before.

AudiologyTalk introduces a new host in this episode. We catch up on news from our word-forced hiatus (yes, we actually have to work every now and then) and do a one-year-later announcement of an important audiology project started right on this program in 2017!

John and Dean discuss news ranging from printing prosthetic ossicles to new insights in cisplatin effects on the ear. Plus, we discuss how to incorporate tinnitus care in your practice and what every audiologist should know about tinnitus.

Some drugs make it and some don’t, while there may still be hope for physicians referring patients with hearing loss. In the end, we have a good reason to rant even more than usual and so John and Dean end happy.

A condensed version of AudiologyTalk covers industry news, gene therapy, and whether a legal firm can force insurance companies to cover hearing instruments. We finish with a super rare sighting of two co-hosts without a single thought to discuss.

We we don’t personally subscribe to anything having to do with preparation or forethought when podcasting, John and Dean recognize the value of promoting prevention in an audiology practice and discuss some ideas you can use during Protect Your Hearing month (that’s October, by the way).

Our first guest in a while may also be one of our most important ever, as we discuss one of the most fundamental aspects of clinical practice: infection control. This is the episode you want to hear, share, and maybe even take notes about!

We look at an update to the National Academies of Science position on OTC hearing aids, a new 3M hearing conversation web site and a possible new otoprotective drug. Plus, audiologists talking about socialized medicine? WHAT?!

After a mega-podcast on OTC, we discuss how this may affect audiology, as well as “other” professions. Also, exciting new research on regenerating hair cells and other audiology research and news.

We start the new year Mindy-less, but John and Dean cover some intriguing news and, in true form, take a discussion somewhere it was never meant to go and probably should never go again.