I always wonder what profession my daughter EC will choose when she grows up.  Watching her everyday while playing her favorite role as a doctor makes me somewhat sad.  I know there will be limitations to options available to her when she reaches her college years.  If she wants to be a doctor one obvious problem will come up, how will she listen to a stetoscope? She cannot do that with her hearing aids on nor off.  If only stetoscopes are made using FM system, (the transmitter microphone is built in the stetoscope and a reciever can be connected to the hearing aid) the medical field will be very accessible to deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals.  On this part of the world, i have yet to know a doctor who is deaf or hard of hearing. 

Yet as i look at EC she is quite contented though with the stetoscope’s Y tubing just simply lying on her neck.  But there were moments i caught her pulling her hearing aids off her ears to place the earpiece of the stetoscope on her ears.  These moments usually occur every after our routine visits to her doctor.  EC is very observant of people she meets.  She is subtle though in the way she observes.  I would be surprised when we finally came home from the clinic and saw her doing exactly the things that all along she has observed from the doctor.  Since EC is an only child and has no friends to play with, she always invites me to play doctor with her.  My role is always that of a patient and she as the doctor.  She always asks me to take my breath in and out while pretending to listen to her toy stetoscope.  She will then proceed to inject on my arm.  After which she will raise her thumb and signal the okay sign, shake my hand and bid me goodbye she will say ba-bye while waving her hand to me.