New Video on Thyroid Surgery and Its Complications

A new video has been created regarding how the thyroid gland is removed along with potential complications that may occur with this surgica...

Dr. Chang Mentioned on NBC News Regarding Sound of One's Voice

Dr. Chang was mentioned today in a NBC News article on their popular Body Odds section. The article entitled "why you hate the sound ...

Why Do Culture Results Take So Long? [video]

One of the most common questions I get after obtaining a culture of pus whether from the ear or the nose is how long it takes before the cu...

Infographic on Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

Check out this great infographic by Aviisha Medical Institute (generated from information by PubMed.gov, Medscape, and BioMed Central) on th...

The Art of Facial Paralysis

Professional photographer Sage Sohier spent 3 years in a Boston ENT clinic photographing patients suffering from facial paralysis along wi...

Stroke vs Non-Stroke Facial Paralysis

Pic from Wikipedia A recent blog post about a ER doctor who was found negligent for not pursuing a stroke workup for an isolated facial par...

Surgeries on a Weekend Have More Complications

The New York Times published an interesting story regarding how patients with ulcerative colitis suffered significantly more surgical compl...

ER Doc Found Negligent in Bell's Palsy Case

This case is not quite what you might think... Here's the background... The Wisconsin State Supreme Court  found an ER physician neglige...

Fauquier ENT Gets Quarter BILLION Views!

Sometime this past week, Fauquier ENT's internet presence through Blog , Website , and YouTube reached a certain milestone... collectiv...

Mal de Debarquement Syndrome - Rare Cause of Dizziness

The BBC recently printed a story describing a rare condition called mal de debarquement which causes  dizziness , typically after a boat c...

Some Facts About Q-Tips and Ears

In this week's episode of " Girls " (Season 2; Episode 9 "Girls Gets Dark"), Hannah grappling with OCD, inserted a Q...

Dr. Chang Quoted in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal on 3/15/13 published a story on how voice therapy and vocal surgery can dramatically improve a person's vocal...

Diagnose Cancer with Flash of a Light!

Traditionally, cancer is diagnosed by a surgical biopsy  with pathology results taking days later. Supportive evidence for a cancer is also ...

Kim Kardashian Gets Allergy Testing

Celebrity Kim Kardashian of Keeping up with the Kardashians reality TV show underwent allergy testing with Dr. Mirmelli. Allergy testing w...

Book on Hoarseness

My fellowship mentor, Dr. James Thomas , taught me much of all I know about the voicebox both when it works and when it doesn't leading ...

Hearing and Understanding ONE Voice Among Many Sounds

Have you ever wondered how is it that a normal hearing human being can hear and understand one person talking in an environment where there ...

The Facial Triangle of Danger (Even Death)

Taken from Wikipedia If you draw a line between the eyebrow to the corners of the lip, a triangle is created which delimits a region esoteri...

Do Surgeons Swear When Operating?

Surgeons, whether deserved or not, have a reputation of being mean-spirited and foul-mouthed as a group overall. It does not help that TV sh...

The Problem with Universal Healthcare

I usually hit the delete key whenever I get a chain email... But this particular one caught my eye enough for me to read the whole thing. Th...

Why Do Biopsy Results Take So Long? [video]

One of the most common questions I get after a surgical procedure is how long it takes before biopsy results are back... especially when a m...

I Am Taking a Reflux Medication & My Symptoms are Not Improving!

On an almost daily basis, I get an email from somebody with the same exact question or near-variation: "Dear Dr. Chang,   I have been t...

Reflux Medication Addiction

When a patient suffers from reflux , there is an astounding array of very effective medications to induce acid suppression for symptom relie...

How Much Tongue Can Be Removed Without Affecting Function?

Unfortunately, whether through trauma or cancer concerns, parts of the tongue may be removed. When a part of the tongue is removed, the prin...

Split Tongue (aka Forking the Tongue, Snake Tongue, etc)

Photo Source Here Splitting the tongue into two halves is a relatively rare type of body modification, though it is becoming more common. To...

What to Do and Care After Vocal Cord Surgery

When surgery is performed on the vocal cords, there are some very specific after-care that is required to allow for optimal healing. In ord...

Can You Spot the Gorilla in the CT Scan?

I am not going to go into too much detail regarding a recent news article regarding how 83% of radiologists (physicians who specialize is lo...

How Much Radiation Exposure Occurs with a CT Scan? X-ray? Sunlight?

A common concern now is how much radiation exposure occurs with common radiological testing such as x-rays and CT scans, especially given th...

Does Acupuncture Help With Allergies?

Image from Acupuncture For All According to one study , it does... Performed by researchers in China and Korea, they divided 238 patients su...

17 Year Old Girl Dies After Tonsillectomy

Patients sometimes focus too much on the intricacies and risks of the surgery itself and not realize that subsequent care AFTER surgery may ...

How Much Caffeine is Present in Coffee? Decaff? Chocolate?

©  Radu Razvan Gheorghe  |  Dreamstime Stock Photos There are quite a few ENT problems that can potentially be due to caffeine intake. Even ...