Thyroid Surgery: 16 Questions Patients Commonly Ask If you've been told that you may need thyroid surgery, you probably have many questions. Do I really need surgery? Can it be avoided? Will my entire thyroid have to be removed? Can I have a smaller incision? Will my...

Thyroid FAQs: 7 Questions Patients Ask 1. Can a benign thyroid nodule turn into thyroid cancer? Most benign thyroid nodules remain benign. However, a nodule that was previously assessed as benign may sometimes require reassessment if it changes significantly in size...

Thyroid Cancer: What to Know Before You Panic The word “cancer” changes how you hear everything that follows. If you've been told that a thyroid nodule needs further testing, or the words “thyroid cancer” have already been used, your mind may immediately go to the...

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 in the...

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 people do next:...

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 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...