Spreading Our Wings: Leadership and Personal Growth in Otolaryngology

Although disorders and treatments of the ears, nose, and throat (ENT) were described in ancient Indian, Chinese, and Greek texts, otolaryngology –head and neck surgery as a specialty began in the Western world in the nineteenth century, when doctors figured out that the ears, the nose, and the throat are closely connected by a system of tubes and passages. An important new medical specialty was thus born. ENT problems are the most common r easons for physician visits around the world, both in developing and developed countries and in rural and urban communities.

Source: Otolaryngologic clinics of North America - June 2, 2020 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Sujana S. Chandrasekhar Tags: Foreword Source Type: research