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PAMF Doctor Pioneers, Perfects World Famous Fix for “Surfer’s Ear”

November 11, 2011



“I leave the waves to my patients,” said Douglas Hetzler, M.D., FACS, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Palo Alto Medical Foundation Santa Cruz. But while surfing holds no allure for him personally, Dr. Hetzler, whose peers have dubbed him “Michelangelo of the Ear Canal,” has spent years perfecting a surgical technique to treat “surfer’s ear”-a serious auditory condition that robs surfers and kayakers of their hearing and, eventually, their sport.
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Treating Ear Infections in Children

August 1, 2011

“Not another ear infection!” you’ll often hear parents groan. Most children experience at least a couple ear infections during early childhood and for some kids they seems to pop up almost as frequently as the next mortgage or rent payment. Ear infections are very much an illness of early childhood and are most common in children from 3 months to 4 years old. Although ear infections can cause temporary pain and discomfort, you can rest assured that most children will outgrow them.

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