Month: January 2003

What do conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and former Miss America Heather Whitestone have in common with many patients seen at the Audiology Service at Wilford Hall Medical Center? These two celebrities were recently in the news because each elected to receive a cochlear implant.

“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man…”

The character Oscar Goldman spoke these words in the 1970’s television show, The Six Million Dollar Man. But what does that have to do with today’s
military, not to mention the National Guard?

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