My Hearing Center - West Palm Beach

When Robert Ranere retired from the United States Navy in 1992 he wanted to find a career where he could couple his engineering experience with his desire to continue helping people. Choosing to become a Hearing Aid Specialist was the best choice for him for many reasons. The advent of the computerized hearing aids meant that skilled programming would be necessary to create positive listening experiences for patients, and he enjoyed programming. More importantly, the possibility of helping people one on one and actually seeing their lives change immediately was most exciting to him.

He completed his training and became a licensed specialist in February of 1996, and he made his first patient cry less than two months later. Now crying is not always a bad thing, on that particular day he fit a 94-year-old patient from Italy, who was visiting her sister for the summer with her first set of hearing aids. When these two sisters sat and spoke to each other and quietly and comfortably for the first time in many years. They both started to cry, and he joined in.

22 years and approximately 10,000 patients later, he still remembers that day like it was yesterday. That is why he goes to work everyday with a smile on his face and tissues in his pocket.