Chronic Throat Pain

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Chronic Throat Pain: Why It’s Usually Not Your Tonsils If you’ve been dealing with a sore, scratchy, irritated throat for weeks or months, the tonsils are almost always the first thing blamed — by patients and, unfortunately, sometimes by doctors too. But...

Pulsatile Tinnitus

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Pulsatile Tinnitus: Why That Whooshing Sound in Your Ear Might Not Be Dangerous If you’ve ever noticed a rhythmic whooshing, swishing or thumping sound in your ear — one that seems to beat in time with your heart — you’ve likely already done what most...

Adenoid surgery: Should You Operate, or Wait?

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Adenoid surgery: Should You Operate, or Wait? If your child has been told the adenoids are enlarged, the question that follows is almost always the same: Sometimes the answer is surgery. Sometimes the right answer is to watch and wait. This piece is about how that...

Vertigo Attack: What to Do and What NOT to Do

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Vertigo Attack: What to Do and What NOT to Do A vertigo attack is not the time to “walk it off.” I want to share a story that has stayed with me. A patient once told me about his wife, who suffered from vertigo and subsequently fell, sustaining a serious injury that...