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2024-03-10 13:51:27
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Richard Rathe on Nostr: npub147m8l…q7rue "A lovely young doctor examined me and said, "You probably have a ...



"A lovely young doctor examined me and said, "You probably have a blocked eustachian tube". I begged to differ. .... Even she had to look it up! So two, relatively young but experienced doctors hadn’t come across this thing that apparently is an emergency!"

[It is a positive that she looked it up BTW!]

I taught physical diagnosis for twenty years at a major university in the US. We older doctors often lamented that good old history and physical exam skills were being lost to the next generation.

Your history was "not normal" for a eustachian tube problem. "...over about a minute, the hearing on my right side faded until I couldn't hear anything at all." A *Red Flag* we would say. Sudden loss of any neurological function is an emergency.

There are easy bedside tests that could have been done to confirm this (see graphic). Did the young docs know them/perform them?! A good review...

https://www.jabfm.org/content/34/1/216.long

#SSNHL #SSHL #HearingLoss #Hearing



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