Someone gets a neck ultrasound for something unrelated — a routine annual check-up, maybe a scan ordered for something else entirely — and the report mentions a nodule on the thyroid, usually with a size in millimetres attached and a phrase like “indeterminate” or “TIRADS 4” sitting next to it. Most people skim past every […]
A patient came in a few months back holding an old audiogram from 2019 and a fresh one from last week. Same ear, same “small perforation” the family doctor had been tracking for six years. The hearing loss on paper had gotten worse, though the hole itself, if anything, looked slightly smaller on examination. That […]
You swallow. Something catches — not food, not pain, just a tightness sitting at the base of the throat, roughly where a shirt collar button would sit. You swallow again to clear it. It stays. You check your neck in the mirror. Nothing to see. Three days later it’s still there, and by now you’ve […]
A patient, aged in his mid thirties, visited last year totally sure about his condition, and that is early burnout. He works as a professional with a small team at Udyog Vihar office. He attends 4 to five calls in a day. By the evening, when he went home, he could not have a simple […]
If you’ve ever lain awake at 2 AM listening to a high-pitched whine that only you can hear, you know how exhausting tinnitus gets. It’s not just an ear thing. It gets into your sleep, your focus at work, your patience with your own family — and most people, by the time they’ve seen a […]
A few years back we started noticing something at the clinic. Runners kept walking in — mostly weekend half-marathoners from Sector 56, a few from DLF Phase 4, one or two regulars from Sohna Road — describing more or less the same cluster of complaints.An affected nose which cannot be cleared no matter how many […]
So there’s this patient. Rajat. I won’t forget him.He came in on a Tuesday morning, maybe 9:30, straight from the airport. I remember thinking he looked like someone who’d just lost a fight with a vacuum cleaner. One hand pressed flat against his left ear, the other clutching his phone, and on the screen was […]
If someone ever noticed, there is an emotional type of worry you can see in a parent’s eyes. It’s not dramatic. It doesn’t wave its arms around. But it’s there, and I see it all the time, maybe because I’ve spent the last fifteen-odd years looking for it. A mother will fidget with her dupatta. […]
For over sixteen years now I’ve been peering into ears at Gurgaon ENT Clinic. Thousands of them, literally. And you know what? The moment someone spots fluid coming out of their ear, a tiny alarm goes off inside their head. I get it, honestly. We’re not exactly wired to be okay with stuff oozing from […]
There’s a particular kind of tiredness I see in my clinic. It’s not just from a blocked nose or a headache. These are the exhaustions of not finding any solutions despite visiting numerous specialists to breathe freely, which is not achieved. I sat with such patients and all their stories are familiar. Usually, they tell […]