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Your attention span isn’t fixed. It increases with practice. Evidence: After 20min sessions solving cognitively challenging problems (10-20hrs total), students show significant gains in sustained focus and test scores. Like physical stamina, mental stamina requires exercise.

“Cobblestoning” of the nasal mucosa bilaterally in a patient with nasal sarcoidosis. Take it from me: never operate on these patients, as the whole nose can break down completely. The treatment is medical. #ENTX

Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA Surgery: In this study, tranexamic acid significantly reduced the risk of perioperative bleeding without increasing cardiovascular risk in patients undergoing general surgery procedures. ja.ma/3CwjvN7

Here is a high yield list of great online educational content related to #otolaryngology on headmirror.com. Great page to bookmark and come back to. If you have other links that you’ve found valuable, please post them in comments below and I will add them to this growing

Matthew L. Carlson, MD MBA Fantastic list Dr. Carlson! Excited to reference these resources. Some of the links are no longer active, possibly due to gov budget cuts? The below link is my personal list of resources, several may be good additions to the list on headmirror! docs.google.com/document/d/1pZ…

Every Friday for a year, I'd hangout in the OR's w/ Drs. Ed Kuan and Brian Wong collecting tissue for this study. I fell in love with otolaryngology on those Fridays and haven't looked back. Super excited to share this study that means so much to me. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A patient somewhere still remembers you because you were present and kind in a difficult, vulnerable moment when no one else was.

Clinical trial launched for the first-of-its-kind 3D printed bioresorbable tracheobronchial splint device co-invented by Glenn Green, MD, one of our pediatric otolaryngologists: michmed.org/RBmry

Taking phones off the internet boosts mental health. People were randomly assigned to block mobile internet for 2 weeks. They socialized, exercised, and read more—and became happier, less depressed & anxious, and more focused. Being unglued from devices is good for well-being.

7 am board prep lecture: heard “laryngeal agenesis has a mortality rate of 100%” 9 am clinic: saw a toddler w laryngeal agenesis running around collecting stickers (neolarynx from esophagus) #whyENT

Your goal is NOT to prove you're smart. It's to make problems go away.

Primary care providers, join our head and neck division faculty for a CME webinar on evaluation and treatment options for head and neck masses on April 11 from 12-1:30pm. Register by April 4 at: michmed.org/ZxYZq

There was never a Dr Dobhoff! The two docs (Dobbie & Hoffmeister) who invented it named it by combining their names. I think they should have called it a “Hoffdobbie tube”

Great article on research by led by Nicholas Lenze, MD, MPH, one of our senior residents, about patient attitudes toward smartwatch devices and obstructive sleep apnea.

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A 40-year-old male patient presents with a 2-month history of a pruritic, nontender irritation at the nasal sills. What is your diagnosis? ja.ma/3EftuHz

🚨 #ClinicalTrials Plenary at #AACR25 Ravi Uppaluri, MDPhD presents KEYNOTE-689 perioperative pembrolizumab + SOC improves EFS in locally advanced resectable HNSCC 🔹Subgroup analysis: no EFS benefit in stage IVA 🔹mPR 13.7% in CPS >=10 🔹Lower rates of path high-risk features

New law: Every time you say physicians just push pills and don't care about their patient's health, you have to do 8 hours of state-mandated shadowing of a family physician.