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Communicating with patients in 
‘Plain English’

1 January 2014 | | ENT
Physicians have long been accused of using unnecessarily complicated language and impenetrable jargon as a way of maintaining their status, prestige and high earnings-potential, bamboozling the public and excluding them from meaningful discussion as part of what George Bernard Shaw...

Cochlear implantation in Tanzania: the journey and the outcomes

1 July 2021 | | Otology, ENT, Auditory Implants
It is estimated that over 400 million people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, 39.9 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. This article by Dr Aveline Kahinga and Mr Ali Jaffer demonstrates the effort that has been made...

Mucormycosis: In conversation with Dr Deepak Haldipur and Dr Aditya Moorthy

7 July 2021 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, COVID-19
COVID-19 has ravaged the world in the past 18 months. The second wave in many countries was deadlier than the first. Mucormycosis, infamously labelled ‘the black fungus’ has affected some countries, such as India, in epidemic proportions within this COVID...

Maxillofacial and neck surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan

1 July 2014 | | ENT, Maxillofacial Surgery, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Vestibular Disorders
Introduction Over the past 150 years, military personnel wounded in action had a survival rate of approximately 80% [1]. During the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, those servicemen wounded in action have a 90.4% survival rate [2]. During the...

Facial pain: the differential diagnosis in an ENT clinic

1 July 2016 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
The patient presenting with facial pain can be a heartsink. Fear not – Bhaskar Ram and Sangeeta Maini are here with a succinct overview of the common non-sinogenic causes of facial pain and headache, and how to manage them. Facial...

Experience on the front line

21 January 2021 | | ENT
21st January 2021 Back to basics Yesterday I went right back to where my medical career began. I grew up in Germany, bilingual. A prerequisite to studying medicine in Germany is that applicants have to spend two months working as...