If you're a fan of government run socialized medicine, try Britain's on for size.

Jerome Bartens was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two-years-old. 

Over the next nine years, he struggled to live a normal life as a young boy — but everything changed when he felt a sudden pop in his right ear while playing a game of pool with friends.  He put his finger in his ear and pulled out a tip of a cotton wool bud that had been wedged in his ear since he was a toddler. 

"It was just incredible — his hearing returned to normal in an instant," Barten's dad said.  I had always suspected Jerome had stuck something in his ear when he was little and that was causing the problem. But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it. 

I am amazed they didn't spot something as obvious as a cotton wool bud."

Others aren't amazed, and neither am I.

Authored by Woody

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