by Michelle Hogan

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, healthcare professionals at area hospitals are diagnosing familiar types of hearing losses in an unfamiliar and remarkable patient population.  

“It's not something that you normally would see in the practice I have, which is all elective surgery and patients who have conditions that are not caused by trauma in general, and I've never worked in the military, so it's definitely a new experience for many of us,” said Daniel J. Lee, MD, an ear surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). “It's been a privilege to care for these wonderful patients.”