• Provides practical guidelines for hearing professionals who must appear in court and for legal practitioners who must incorporate expert testimony in the pursuit or defense of claims
• Enables readers to identify causes of hearing loss and to assign appropriate allocations of causation, even when more that one cause is present
• Discusses the physics of sound, normal hearing, disorders causing hearing loss, hearing testing, hearing conversation program management, and legal remedies for hearing loss

Robert A. Dobie, M.D. is the Director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also Visiting Professor of Otolaryngology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and is the past Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He is listed in The Best Doctors in America, is President of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, and has received numerous honors and awards for his contributions to the medical profession.

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