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    Fun fact I learned waaay too late in my nursing career: if a patient has lost or damaged their amplifying hearing aid, you can put a stethoscope in their ears and talk into the bell.

    None of you will ever use this but I share it with everyone now because it’s really neat and I wish I knew it 10 years ago.

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      514 hours ago

      My brother told me this. He said the disposable stethoscopes during COVID height were great for this.

      And I actually might as I intend to go EMS/EMS adjacent.

    • Björn TantauOP
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      1717 hours ago

      Apparently due to Indian regulations. I guess it cannot legally call itself a “hearing aid” without going through some kind of certification process.

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        717 hours ago

        Yeah the article mentioned that at some point. It still seems a bit petty to geofence it, instead of just calling it something else

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          I can actually forgive this one. A lot of medical devices regulations require that if you function as something or make it available, then you need to pass the certification for offering it.
          You can’t just relabel a device as something else if you clearly intend for it to be used as a medical device. Shady Bob’s emergency electrical heart massager isn’t going to fly.

          In the US, hearing aids required a prescription until 2022. What I can glean from translated sites is that India still has that requirement.