Articles of Interest

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.

This is a blog for my fellow Morehead alumni that attended this weekend’s forum. All other readers enjoy, but there are references that you may not understand. I request your indulgence.

I have treated and continue to treat many uninsured patients in my practice. And invariably, when thinking about diagnostic and treatment options for their condition, I come to think how on God’s earth am I able to provide the medical care they need without totally running up a huge bill and huge debt for them!!! Many times I feel totally handicapped,

The same ETHICS and CHARACTER that are demanded on the golf course, apply to the operating room. The unfortunate rules ‘infraction’ event of the golf course, culminating in a ‘penalty’ stroke, is the ‘complication’ in the OR.

What happens in the OR, or more specifically what happens in my head, when an unexpected intraoperative situation dictates a change of direction? It is much better to have considered all the possible scenarios

Surgeon in the trenches (SITT) thinks this would be a great day to honor not only our biologic fathers but also our father figures. For many these father figures are teachers, coaches, etc. For many surgeons, our surgery professors represent those paternal figureheads

The pressing issue of the day is the shape and form of the upcoming healthcare reform. Unfortunately, none of the current proposals actually reform healthcare.