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 […]
For many patients, the days after a cochlear implant carry a certain uncertainty. Sound is present, but not yet settled. It takes time to recognise voices, to separate speech from noise, to feel at ease with what the ear receives. Earlier, that adjustment leaned heavily on repetition. A setting would be tested, changed, tested again. […]
Some days in Gurgaon don’t look polluted at all. You step out, the sky seems clear enough. Nothing sharp, nothing alarming. But by late afternoon, there is that familiar drag—your nose feels slightly blocked, your head a little heavy. You don’t quite call it discomfort. Just… not clear. Most people move on from it but […]
Sinus surgery has never been blind work, but it has, for a long time, depended on a surgeon’s internal sense of direction. That instinct—built through years of practice—still matters. Yet in certain cases, particularly where anatomy is distorted or unclear, instinct alone leaves too much to chance. Image-guided navigation entered this space quietly. It did […]
Hearing loss is often described in numbers, decibels, frequencies, test results. That is not how it is first noticed. It begins in ordinary moments. A sentence that needs repeating. A voice that sounds present but indistinct. The sense that conversations now require effort where they once did not. Most people adjust before they investigate. They […]
“Not yet.” It is rarely said out loud, but it sits underneath most decisions to delay. Not yet serious. Not yet necessary. Not yet worth acting on. Hearing loss makes that easy. It does not arrive with force. It blends into routine, shifts the edges, asks for small adjustments—and then settles in as if it […]
Most people do not describe hearing loss in clinical terms. They talk about effort. The strain of keeping up. The quiet habit of nodding along when words are only half-heard. It rarely begins as silence. It begins as distortion. For a section of patients, especially those with conductive or mixed hearing loss, the difficulty is […]
Little things actually matter most in our lives. When you tilt your head to your colleague to listen to something, or suddenly we are overwhelmed with strong anxiety when you are caught in a thunderstorm and you don’t have any umbrella. A perforated eardrum isn’t just a “hole”—it’s a constant, low-level stressor. Whether yours came […]