[edit] Why do they exist?
Just curious why someone would decide to go to an otolarynhgthist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.9.45.237 (talk) 19:26, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe because they have an extreme sinus, nose, throat, ear problem? Probably the vast majority of their patients go to a "regular" (nonspecialist) physician 1st, then get referred because the problem is too complex. I was personally referred to one when I was 13 years old, to have surgery on my nose & sinuses. As for your topic heading, why do any specialists exist? Why not just have all doctors be "jacks-of-all-trades"; better yet, why not just have everybody be "generalists", doing away completely with specializaton and go back to a barter economy. Is that what you'd like? Have you ever heard of the concept of the "division of labor"?173.16.124.196 (talk) 18:29, 2 July 2009 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.16.124.196 (talk) 18:19, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
i want to be one. help me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.215.150.254 (talk • contribs)
- Well, finish primary school and secondary school, go to university, get a medical degree and apply for specialist training in otolaryngology. Simple. JFW | T@lk 18:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
"A somewhat outdated, but nevertheless commonly used, term for this speciality is ENT (ear nose and throat)." This seems to be a put-down of the majority of people, who use ordinary, easy-to-remember English terms rather than medical terminology. --Singkong2005 00:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- I just got a job at an eye and ear hospital. I now sort all of the incoming mail. Leaning why the mail for ENT goes in the same box as the mail for Otolaryngology was useful to me. -- Ianiceboy 11:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
hopiakuta 00:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] International Leaning
This article only has a US-angle (and, contrary to popular belief there is a world outside of the USA), can someone change it so that it has different areas for different countries - for instance, training in the United Kingdom is very different to that undertaken in the states? --CapFan —Preceding comment was added at 14:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation
Aww what, no pronunciation key and example? C'mon someone muster up the pronunciation key for this, the hardest word to pronounce in the English language :P SyBerWoLff 02:57, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Etymology
User:Avg inserted an etymology for the term otolaryngology (on August 12, 2007) which is quite misleading. Many medical and scientific modern Greek terms (such as the word for biology, biorhythm, and xenoglossy) don't come from from Ancient Greek but from Neolatin compounds (usually via German or French) which in their turn are based on ancient Greek roots. This means that the English word otolaryngology is cognate to Greek ὠτολαρυγγολογία, since they are both derived from the Neolatin 'construction'. Stating that a word is a derivate of another word while, in fact, they are cognates is misleading. In this respect, the article should either just include the Greek roots, or, alternatively, also include the cognate modern Greek word provided that the relationship of the latter to the corresponding English term will be explicitly stated. Note, that this is the way every other wiki-article on a theory/concept which is described by a Neolatin word based on classical Greek roots deals with this kind of etymological confusion (see also agnotology). --Omnipaedista (talk) 19:40, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
