Unicexal is an antibiotic in drop form. It is normally prescribed for external ear canal infections such as swimmers ears.
However there is no documentation pertinent to its use on ruptured eardrums and middle ear infections. It is neither recommended or unrecommended.
Has anyone prescribed unicexal on a patient with ruptured eardrum and middle ear infection?
Help me out guys, really confused between ENT and surgery.
What I don't understand is why ENT gets so much hate. It seems like a perfectly balanced branch to me, with both OPD and surgical exposure and a good work-life balance.
I agree surgery and medicine eat up a lot of your patients, but building a career in India is all about developing a niche. Most branches have no clear demarcation anymore, and everyone is trying to encroach on each other's patients. Example being Geriatrics, emergency medicine and family medicine are all things general medicine can handle, and IR is already taking a lot of surgical cases. Minimally invasive surgery is clearly the future too.
Would love to hear from people in either branch. Am I missing something about ENT?
Hi all,
I went to an ENT and that doctor referred me to another place to have an allergy test then came back with the result.
I called that place (and many similar places), the code for the specific test only came up $7 in BCMA tool but all of these places also charge a doctor's visit which usually cost > $100.
What I don't understand is why do I have to pay for the doctor's visit if I just want a test. I think it should be:
* I visit the ENT - paid doctor's visit once and a nasal endoscopy
* Now I just need a test in another place, I don't need to see a doctor at that place.
* Then I visit the first doctor again and possibly pay for another visit.
I have no reason to see the doctor if I just want a test, they don't know about my nasal endoscopy or anything about the previous visit. The most they do is look at the test result and conclude sth. The first doctor will combine that result and whatever he found out in the first visit to diagnose.
So questions:
* Is it normal to get charged for doctor's visit even if you just want a test?
* Anyway to filter out places that just do test without forcing the doctor's visit as well?
* Usually if you visit the first doctor again after the test result, do you pay for another doctor's visit with the first doctor?
* Can I ask the first doctor to email me all the results including the nasal endoscopy so I can visit the second doctor for the test and give them all of that and won't need to come back to the first?
Thank you!
BC MA cost estimator/help line is not helpful. It's always "depending on the provider" - if they bill under the doctor or the facility, if they charge you a doctor's visit or not... Feels like they should have all of that in place.
They can't just give me a place that does X for Y amount.