https://Voice.club - For those with hearing loss, it was the most marvelous surgery. The discovery of a lifetime! A microscopic implant was placed in the ear and miraculously restored perfect hearing instantaneously. The implant joined only three pieces, three small bones in the middle ear called the ossicles. The malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrup) were joined by what doctors jokingly referred to as the “mighty mallet.”
The fourth piece claimed to be foolproof, waterproof and shatterproof. Some recipients even boasted it reduced headaches. Others bragged it enhanced sleeping. The greatest claim was -it was absolutely free. No fee for the implant or surgeon.
What was my interest? I was a researcher working for the competition who feared being bankrupt by the success of this magical implant. They hired me to find something unsavoury about the earpiece. However, my interest was personal; I wanted to ensure it was safe for my deaf mother.
Benefits of the implant were wildly exaggerated. A fifty-year-old woman stated it made her skin soft, luminous and youthful. A senior contended it gave him the energy he had in his youth. The most magnified brag was from an octogenarian claiming he now had the increased libido of a youth.
My role was to separate fiction from fact. The procedure was free. However, the patient had to make frequent and lengthy visits to a private clinic. I began by investigating the prolonged visits. Pretending to be a potential client, I sat in the waiting room. Immediately, I noticed something significant. The initially jolly patients after their visit were listless and morose.
Numerous red flags resulted in police placing the company under a microscope. The hearing implant business was swiftly put out of business for causing their clients to be zombified. The implant also had a spying device for those in high security jobs. Once the implant was removed the patient returned to normal. Result - my company was saved and prospered. For my work, my mother was fitted with a proper and free hearing aid.
The moral of this story is please do not believe everything you hear!