U.S. immigration policies have significantly affected immigrant families’ access to pediatric otolaryngological care, leading to fear, reduced healthcare visits, and delayed treatments. These changes have created challenges for healthcare providers and jeopardized children’s health and well-being.
Otolaryngologists face increasing threats and violence from patients or their families, prompting the adoption of system-level safety protocols to protect staff while ensuring patient care. These protocols emphasize team-based responses, clear behavior expectations, and institutional support to manage disruptive behaviors effectively.
Many medical students interested in competitive specialties like otolaryngology consider taking a gap year to conduct research, aiming to enhance their residency applications and future careers. While this trend is increasing, its benefits and consequences are debated among program directors, otolaryngologists, and trainees.
TXA is increasingly used in otolaryngology to reduce intra-operative and post-operative bleeding, supported by evidence from emergency medicine and orthopedic surgery. Its safety profile is strong, and it is administered intravenously or orally, with emerging use in pediatric and adult otolaryngologic procedures.
Facial plastic surgeon John Rhee, MD, MPH, sees many patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC).
Advances in image guidance systems for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) are providing benefits to surgeons-and by extension, to their patients-say experienced sinus surgeons interviewed recently for ENToday.
Harold (Rick) Pillsbury, MD, President-Elect of the Triological Society, has been predicting for 10 years that there would be a need to hire people to help extend otolaryngology practices—in other words, physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs). “I was right. That makes me the soothsayer here,” he joked.
