http://www.enttoday.org Columns Section Rss http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/1441089/Time_to_Retire_Your_White_Coat_Plan_your_exit_strategy_carefully.html <p>As the physicians of the baby boomer generation approach their golden years, many have achieved career and financial success and are looking for an arrangement that will allow them to ease into retirement. While you may not be ready to hang up your white coat permanently, you may be interested in working fewer hours and taking less call. Retirement requires more than simply removing your name from the office door, however. If you are a physician nearing retirement, it is important that you plan, discuss and make contractual agreements that will allow you to accomplish your goals and changing needs.</p> 2012-01-13T15:52:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/1389599/New_Ventures_New_Risks_Review_all_possibilities_before_affiliating_with_a_hospit.html <p>In my January 2011 column (&ldquo;A Seller&rsquo;s Market: How to prepare your practice for sale to a hospital&rdquo;), I described the growing trend of physicians selling their practices to hospitals and large health systems and then working for the hospital or health system. This trend is expected to continue in full force through 2012. As I noted in my January article, the physician&rsquo;s post-sale arrangement is the driver for the growth of the physician&rsquo;s practice within the hospital or health system.</p> 2011-11-05T15:12:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/866999/ENT_Today_Welcomes_New_Committee.html <p>One of the features we&iacute;ve added to <em>ENT Today</em> since our new publishing partnership with Wiley-Blackwell has been concise, to-the-point reviews of some of the most important articles in the literature. Our editorial board members have been responsible for the most recent reviews in our &igrave;Literature Review&icirc; department, but the Triological Society has established a new committee of outstanding individuals who will scan the literature and write the summaries you read in <em>ENT Today</em>.</p> 2010-10-18T17:04:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/836623/More_of_the_Same_Why_isnt_otolaryngology_becoming_more_diverse.html <p>As America grows and evolves, its face necessarily changes. Our country rests solidly on the idea that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should be available to all. Our collective understanding that access to health care and healthy living are essential to that ideal happiness continues to mature. But while the population becomes more diverse and blended, cultural disparities in health care not only persist, they do not appear to be diminishing. Collectively, African-Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans comprise over one-quarter of our population. Yet, in the year 2000, they made up less than 10 percent of the physician workforce. These numbers dwindle even more when we consider surgical subspecialties.</p> 2010-09-03T16:09:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/690071/Canal_Wall_Up_vs__Canal__Wall_Down_Symptom_of_a_greater_need.html <p>This issue of <em>ENT Today</em> includes an article on the debate over canal-wall-up (CWU) versus canal-wall-down (CWD) tympanomastoidectomy (p. 5). I remember hearing the same arguments when I was a resident at UCLA, which was also the last time I drilled a mastoid bone; my practice focused on head and neck surgery and pediatric otolaryngology. Over the past 32 years, Drs. Bruce Gantz, Rick Chole (two of my otology colleagues on the Board of Otolaryngology), and other otologist friends have suffered through my semi-tongue-in-cheek comments on why otologists can&rsquo;t agree on which procedure is better. Although the technology used in both procedures has evolved, the final product of the two procedures, a dry, safe ear, is, as best I can tell, the same as it was when I was a resident. I have been told that one of the main factors considered in the decision regarding which procedure to perform is where the otologist trained.</p> 2010-05-02T16:32:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/496249/Trauma_Care_and_the_Otolaryngologist_Roles_Expectations_and_Challenges.html <p>SAN DIEGO-Trauma care in the United States is on or heading toward life support. Although this may sound hyperbolic, it points to a need, seen by many otolaryngologists and other surgeons, to raise awareness of the growing gap between the numbers of people in need of trauma services and the accessibility of getting those services.</p> 2009-12-01T02:45:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/527231/Geriatric_Otolaryngology_Has_Come_of_Age.html <p>Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery is a broad specialty that covers the diagnosis and the medical and surgical management of conditions in patients who age from neonates through adults.</p> 2007-04-01T05:49:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/527243/The_Neurotologist_as_Gamma_Knife_Radiosurgeon.html <p>There are three management options for patients with acoustic neuromas: microsurgical removal, stereotactic radiosurgery, and expectant management.</p> 2007-03-01T06:00:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/527269/The_Evolution_of_Endoscopic_Sinus_Surgery.html <p>Endoscopic sinus surgery was introduced into the United States more than 20 years ago; over that time period it has undergone significant changes, in terms of both surgical technique and our understanding of the disorder of chronic rhinosinusitis.</p> 2007-02-01T06:22:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/527291/The_Otolaryngologist_as_Sleep_Physician.html <p>Many non-otolaryngologists, and even some otolaryngologists, ask: Why would surgeons-especially busy ones-care about sleep medicine? Do they really want to read sleep studies?</p> 2007-01-01T06:39:00Z