Otolaryngology

As happens with any minority, the media misrepresents Deaf people. They have been portrayed as disabled or isolated, for example, in Switched at Birth, a deaf character gets nearly hit by a car, starts a kitchen fire, and is robbed while her nearby deaf friend doesn’t help because he can’t hear her cries for help. In Bones, a teenage deaf girl is treated as a homicide suspect because she doesn’t immediately speak to the police (Foss 437-438). As a result of this representation, hearing people…

The bus took off in the bitter chill of the autumn wind that frosted the noise on the busy New Yorkers, as the bus made my way to Philadelphia. I took the window seat to glare out as the dimly lit sidewalks grew barren of people; the only ones left were those displaying their affections as we past the park, and the lone travelers who tread the crooked pavements with haste; avoiding that park. After a few seconds, there was nothing to glare out at as we drove through the tunnel, but faded…

People are not aware of the problems that are likely to cause an end to life as known. Antibiotic resistance is a life-threatening problem most choose to ignore. “Each year in the United States, at least two million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics,” says Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016). Doctors are prescribing antibiotics when they should not be used, or should use a weaker dose of that antibiotic. Before too long, the bacteria are going…

Pathophysiology Otitis media is a common pediatric condition “by the age of 2 years, 70% of all children have suffered at least one episode of acute otitis media” (Montague & Hussain, 2007). This fits into my area of clinical practice as an ENT nurse we evaluate patients who are referred for recurrent ear infections to determine if surgical intervention is recommended in the way of pressure equalization tubes, which act as a bypass to the eustachian tube. The pathophysiology of this condition…

KiKi Petrosino’s Fort Red Border speaks volumes as both a creative outlook on the imagined relationship between the speaker, an Italian African-American and her beloved Robert Redford, an iconic American actor. With her unique perspective on the world in which she lives, Kiki takes her readers on a fantasy between the natural and unnatural, and the real and unreal; questioning the validity of everyday life. Fort Red Border also explores the ideologies behind class, ethnicity, and inheritance,…

As tinnitus is regularly occurrence as a result of cellular damage to the ear, replacing those cells is often the major focus of treatment. Nutritional supplements including gingko biloba and alpha lipoic acid are often used. Below is the simple steps to reverse your tinnitus naturally Gingko Biloba Gingko biloba is an herbal therapy known to treat a number of health conditions including tinnitus. Gingko plays major role in refining and improving blood circulation, which contributes to the…

training and teaching and provide care within the home and reduce exposure to infectious agents. Since the tracheostomy serves as a port of entry, its proper care is critically important to prevent patient readmission. The American Academy of Otolaryngology suggests an emergency supply checklist be provided to and reviewed with all patients or caregivers of patients with new tracheostomies (McCormick et al., 2015). Supplies such as oxygen, suctioning canister and tubing, tracheostomy collar…

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by American journalist Sheri Fink is a very inspirational book because it focused on the events that happened in Memorial Medical Center when the hospital was flooded and had no electricity after Hurricane Katrina struck the city. Time, space, communication, and identity are portrayed throughout the book. These four factors are important in inter-ethnic relationships between patients and health care providers. Being able to…

What Are Cochlear Implants? In the past thirty years, scientists and researchers have been developing and improving an electronic medical device, referred to as a cochlear implant (Cochlear Celebrates, 2016). This small therapeutic device replaces one’s damaged cochlea, and is responsible for providing the proper sound signals to the brain so that one can hear. Not to be confused with a hearing aid, a cochlear implant is very different. A cochlear implant is responsible for bypassing the damaged…

Under New York law, is a covenant not to compete enforceable when it restricts the previous employee by limiting future employment opportunities within a specified span of time of eighteen months and with similar business to the former employer, within fifteen miles of the previous employer, and when the employee cannot take or have any clients follow them to their new place of employment? The covenant not to compete that Ms. Rice signed as an employee of Suffolk Speech & Hearing Center…