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Dr. Kelley Linton
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In deciding what medical field to enter, Dr. Kelley Linton weighed several factors including the nature of the work matching her skillset, the level of need in the community and the potential to serve populations who need care the most. She found audiology checked all the boxes. “I was in a pre-med program, and I really liked math and science, honestly. Audiology is dealing with frequencies and decibels,” she says. “It is the most common disability that babies are born with, every single person who lives long enough will have hearing loss and we live in such a noisy world, there’s just a lot of hearing loss out there. There’s a tremendous need.” Over the years, Kelley has met that need through Center for Hearing Ltd., the practice she founded in Fort Smith, improving the
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lives of countless patients. Their diagnostic hearing tests include cutting-edge technology
the Call is, they work on the premise of
and the latest techniques to ensure a quality
giving people a hand up not a handout and
practice includes various related services such
that's a very big factor in their belief.
aids, ear wax removal and helping patients
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outcome for each patient. In addition, the as fitting, repairing and maintaining hearing deal with tinnitus.
