In the age of equal opportunity, should hearing loss be a barrier to medical school?About 28 million people in the U.S., or about 20 percent of the population, are deaf or hearing-impaired. Historically, hearing loss has presented a-==-90 barrier to entering the medical profession, because auscultation with a traditional stethoscope relies on intact hearing. Today, however, assistive technologies and devices such as the Thinklabs One are opening doors to many whose hearing impairment were once