This cohort study evaluates the efficacy of a tracheostomy-specific risk-tier system for children undergoing tracheostomy.

The Imagination of the Problem

Generative AI is now embedded in scholarly workflows, yet publishing policy has often jumped to permission or prohibition without first defining what is being governed. The central risk is not tool u....

Objective Current guidelines recommend overnight admission for children with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and obesity undergoing tonsillectomy, although most have uneventful postoperative co...

Multimodal data-capturing technologies are becoming increasingly prevalent in operating rooms as they use physiologic, audiovisual, and health record data to improve safety, quality, and efficiency. ...

A systems reading of the House Judiciary Committee's report on medical residency

Figure 1: Causal Map of Emerging Stagflation Dynamics

Match Week, Grief, and the Things We Don’t Let Medical Students Feel

UT Southwestern celebrates Black History Month, with guest speaker Romaine Johnson, M.D., M.P.H., FACS.

What a single conversation revealed about AI evaluation, framing, and why the prompt is the experiment

What the Evidence Actually Shows

Podcast Episode · OTO Journal · February 27 · 33m

Why Complex Systems Fail the Same Way, Every Time

An ongoing series on near misses—events that should not exist in a well-designed system.

There’s a class of strategic failure that’s hard to see from inside it.

What AI Gets Right About Pre-Med Advice—and What Fits in Your Pocket

A conversation about measure zero, consciousness, and the ontology of the actual

What 364 Children Taught Us About Teams, Coordination, and the Limits of Our Interventions

New research from our group challenges a common assumption about childhood obesity and sleep apnea.

The Belonging Paradox

A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

Two Phenotypes of Pediatric OSA

Peter Marks has written a thoughtful essay in NEJM diagnosing the collapse of public health confidence in America.

How surgeon expertise and patient volume create a self-reinforcing ecosystem for generating increasingly sophisticated research questions

In light of continuing changes to graduate medical education interview approaches, this cross-sectional survey-based study comparatively assesses otolaryngology residency applicant perspectives on vi...

The city will host a dedication event Wednesday, Oct. 22 which will be designated "Bobby Seale Day" in Oakland.

Imaging what I would write if I had to apply to ENT again

A Costly Distraction

I had a dream last night where I went back to fellowship—already accomplished, already credentialed, but choosing to start over.

Something has been weighing on my mind lately, and I suspect I'm not alone in this reflection.

The Mismatch at the Heart of Modern Life

What I Told Premeds at UT Dallas

A Soliloquy in the Voice of Denzel Washington