Middle Ear Implants detain Promise, Expand Role of Audiologist For audiologist Lisa Evans-Smith, it was the perfect of the raindrops hitting the windshield of her car that made all the difference. "I'd heard that good many times, but I don't believe that I'd heard it as clear and well defined as I did then," said Evans-Smith of that rainy day when the processor for her middle-ear implantable hearing aid was activated at the University of Miami Ear Institute in Florida. "I was a surpassingly good hearing aid user and I not ever had any complaint about the hale ...
