What a great case!!! Helping someone’s hearing by placing an implantable metal post?? It’s true. It’s called a bone anchored hearing aid, and very few Raleigh area ENT’s or audiologists offer this really neat advancement in hearing rehab. It’s designed [...]

Sinus surgery for chronic infections can be risky, as explained in this WRAL TV video by Dr. Doug Holmes. Dr. Holmes, as you’ll see, recommends a simple same day procedure called Balloon Sinuplasty, which is far less invasive and less [...]

Do you suffer from chronic sinus discomfort with no relief using medication? This video describes a new procedure available at Rex Hospital called Balloon Sinuplasty; a less invasive outpatient procedure that avoids the need to pack the sinuses as in traditional surgery.

Sinusitis affects some 37 million people annually and is more prevalent than heart disease and asthma. There are medications to help with symptoms but 20% of patients do not respond favorably to them. In this video, one chronic sinus infection sufferer tells her story of ongoing attempts and failures to cure her ongoing affliction until she found a remarkable new treatment that is far less invasive and risky than the standard recommended treatments for this condition.

Collaborative Healthcare Solutions, an alternative to medical malpractice lawsuits

Very little is more contentious in medicine than the topic of medical malpractice, lawsuits, and tort reform. The large number of stakeholders with financial and emotional capital are immense. There is little need for me to further describe our current state of ‘deny and defend’, with fear of malpractice cases by healthcare workers, limited to no discussion after a bad outcome, defensive medicine, and assertions by plaintiff’s attorneys that they alone represent the interests of an injured patient.

Severe nosebleeds (epistaxis in medical jargon) are a great example of the secondary, often adverse effects of medical advances which run up the bill for medical costs in the United States.

The staff at ENT & Audiology Associates is excited to unveil our new WordPress-powered CMS website. The new site provides our clients with valuable information about our services.

If you are lucky, one day you will fall in love. It happens to most all of us at one time or another. It’s actually a psychosis, this falling in love thing. Endorphins bathe our brains with that top of the world, nothing can hurt us euphoria. And there are physical signs and symptoms:

Is it any mystery that our civilian practice, ENT & Audiology Associates serves our military family in any way, shape, or form? From entrance physicals to retirement disability evaluations, from the infant family members of deployed soldiers to the long retired WWII vet, including current service members injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is our duty and our honor and our sacred trust.

When I finished my residency training in 1985, I had the impression that all the great, interesting, challenging cases could be found only at the tertiary care university setting. How wrong I was, how naive I was.