YouTube Enforces Graphic Content Restrictions Against Surgical Videos

Over the last few months, quite a few of the surgical videos uploaded by Fauquier ENT has been slapped with "graphic content restrictions" which is prohibited by YouTube policies. Although these surgical videos are still "allowed" due to its educational nature, any videos showing enough blood and guts are now placed behind an age restriction. It's not just ENT surgical videos... its ANY videos by any surgeon showing actual surgical footage. You can read more about t…

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The 4 Basic Principles That Underly a Hoarse Voice [VIDEO]

A new video has been created showing what the 4 underlying principles that lead to a hoarse voice are. Examples of the different types of hoarse voice are also shown. By understanding these principles, one can have a better understanding of what may be going on if the voice becomes raspy or hoarse. Here are a few of the different types of vocal cord pathology shown in the video: • Vocal cord bowing • Vocal cord paralysis • Vocal cord polyp • Vocal cord pre-nodules • Vocal cord nodul…

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Why Do Allergy Skin Prick and Blood Testing Results Sometimes Differ?

Image by Wolfgang Ihloff in Wikipedia For inhalant allergies, there is a high agreement (~80-90%) in results found between skin prick and blood testing . However, occasionally the results may differ quite significantly... usually in these situations, the skin prick test comes back positive for something whereas the blood test comes back negative or normal. It's also possible that both skin prick and blood testing may come back normal even if a patient is truly allergic. Why? Bef…

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Why Does Airplane Food Taste So Bad?

Image by Wikipedia People universally complain about how bad airplane food is... However, the reason may surprise you in that it's not the airline's fault, but your body's. Based on research performed in 2010 at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany where they have a replica airplane cabin and can simulate different altitudes, cabin pressure, cabin external wall temperature, relative humidity, noise level, vibration, light, air circulation, etc... food scientists discovered that…

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Can Headaches Trigger Nosebleeds?

Image courtesy of stockimages at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net Ignoring high blood pressure headaches which can potentially rupture blood vessels in the nose leading to a nosebleed, can headaches in and of itself trigger nosebleeds? I encounter a few patients a year who report that a particularly bad headache triggered their nosebleed, also known as epistaxis . But can this actually be true? After all, headaches are common and nosebleeds are common. As such, statistically, two common events …

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Normal Radiological Appearance After Endoscopic Treatment of Zenker's Diverticulum (ESD)

Patient's who suffer from Zenker's Diverticulum report significant difficulty in swallowing , food regurgitation, aspiration, noisy swallowing, etc. These symptoms all stem from the abnormal presence of a "pouch" in the throat where food and liquids get trapped during swallow. The main way of diagnosing a Zenker's Diverticulum is a radiological test called the barium swallow . Endoscopic staple diverticulostomy (ESD) is a minimally invasive procedure to eliminate th…

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