I see a brief note on my desk: you woke up one day with a cold and a hoarse voice. The cold went away, but the voice problem stayed. With just that brief note — that you’re hoarse, and why you think you’re hoarse — I probably have at least a 10% chance of already…
As a response to some recent national decisions let’s think more clearly: Beyond the Checklist: Clinical Judgment, Patient Narrative, and the Surgeon’s Responsibility in Gender-Affirming Laryngology. We can do better. The frameworks still used to select patients for gender-affirming surgery descend from standards written decades ago, when outcomes data were thin and social acceptance was…
A standard taught medical exam has two components: history and visual exam. That’s insufficient for laryngology. A complete exam for hoarseness requires a third element — a voice exam — and most of us aren’t doing it. The voice exam is not just listening to someone talk. Conversational speech actually contaminates voice. When a patient…
At The Voice Foundation’s 55th Annual Symposium, a panel discussed therapy for a vocal polyp—without asking the question that should come first: what kind of lesion is this, and how did it get there?
