Surgeons Should Operate Naked to Decrease Risk of Surgical Site Infections

Image courtesy of adamr at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net This controversial claim was actually made by a well-respected surgeon, Dr. Dellinger , a...

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How Much Paperwork for a Doctor and Other Professions?

Image courtesy of Gualberto107 at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net The Annals of Internal Medicine recently published a paper which investigated how ...

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Hope for the Best and Prepare for the Worst

Image from Wikipedia This quote probably ranks somewhere in the top 3 among surgeons when operating on "challenging" cases. It sim...

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ENT House Visits? ENT Telemedicine?

Image from Van-cafe.com The year 2016 may be the tipping point where telemedicine and doctors making house calls may become a mainstream phe...

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ENT Uses Laser Resulting in Patient Death

In 2010, an ENT used a Sharplan laser with an Omniguide Sidefire Adapter to address a superficial lip hemangioma. The tip of the laser probe...

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ENT Surgeon Sues Spine Surgeon for Wrong Sided Surgery

Wrong sided surgery is extremely rare occurring anywhere from 0.09 to 4.5 per 10,000 surgeries performed. It is almost unheard of when the p...

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Is Social Media Bad for Doctors?

I was recently asked to participate as a speaker in a panel discussion on social media next year in Canada and while preparing my thoughts o...

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