Last weekend I had the privilege of attending the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology Annual Summer Meeting. One of the keynote speakers was Dr. Gregory Randolph who is an academic thyroid cancer surgeon at Harvard. I was lucky enough to spend some quality time with him and we had some spirited discussions both formally during the meeting and informally. I’m excited to report some new trends in surgery for thyroid disease that will lead to fewer patients needing surgery, and

Over the past several years we have enjoyed many improvements in treatment for sinus problems. Almost all of these have been improvements in surgery techniques such as image guided technology, microdebriders and balloon sinus surgery that can be done in the office. We offer all of these in our practice. But even more exciting are the non-surgery treatments that are coming. One is a new method of delivering medication to the nose. We have had nasal steroid sprays (Flonase,