Gurgaon is noisy. Actually, that’s putting it mildly.The relentless sounds like working in the next block, autos honking relentlessly, music as loud as all can hear from the next house at 7 AM. So it’s normal when a senior citizen comes in and complains about hearing loss. What shocks me? The resignation. The quiet acceptance […]
So, there was this woman who came to see me last year. I’ll call her Mrs. K. She must have been in her early fifties, very put together, the kind of person who’s used to handling things on her own. She sat down and told me, very calmly, that for six months she’d been feeling […]
I have been doing this ENT thing for over twenty years now. Started my practice back when we were still developing film X-rays in a dark room and hoping they came out right. Seen a lot of change. It is a dull and continuous sensation of weight which has a feeling like someone stuffed her […]
Let’s just get real for a minute. If you’re here, you’re probably tired on a level most people can’t grasp. Not the “had a rough week” tired, but the kind where you’ve almost forgotten how it feels to breathe with your mouth closed. When you’ve finished your third or fourth round of antibiotics, felt sort […]
I’ve been meaning to write this down for months, but every time I sat to type, some patient would walk in with a worried face and the whole thing got pushed. Maybe that’s fitting. Because what I want to tell you isn’t a polished idea. It’s a messy, very human one, learned from years of […]
Most people, when they hear the phrase “nose job,” still picture something rather rough. The idea of a surgeon taking small instruments and purposely fracturing the nasal bones, then the face swelling up in dramatic shades of black and blue for weeks, is a persistent old image. And I get why that frightens folks. It […]
When you went outside in Gurgaon street in late July after a heavy downpour you can feel the air clinging to the skin. The heavy humid air coming from beneath is not only uncomfortable, it is like burning your skin from inside. For most, it is fizzy air and sticky traveling but for a growing […]
For years, you’d see a throat cancer case and you just knew. The person smoked. Or chewed gutka. Or drank heavily. Most likely all three, if we’re being honest. That was the India I trained in. But that picture? It’s cracking. Now you get a man in his late 40s, fit, non-smoker, maybe runs on […]
If you speak to ten patients before eardrum surgery, you will hear the same concerns repeated in different words. Will my hearing improve? Will the infection stop coming back? The duration of the repair? These are very logical questions, and it is also the reason behind the tympanoplasty surgery. There is, however, another part of […]
There was a time when ENT surgery almost always meant staying back in the hospital for the night. Patients expected admission before they even discussed the procedure itself. A surgery was automatically linked with monitoring, overnight observation, repeated vitals, and discharge the following day. That pattern has gradually faded. Today, many ENT procedures are completed […]