Are You Really Listening?

We all think we are great listeners. We “listen” to chief complaints, we listen to histories of present illness, we listen to heart and lung sounds. We spend the better part of the day “listening.” But are we really listening? Or are we just “hearing?” Hearing is the perception of sounds by the auditory nerves in the ear. Listening involves an attentiveness to hear with a purpose of understanding. hearing is a temporal lobe function, …

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