{"id":520,"date":"2020-11-29T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/?p=520"},"modified":"2020-11-29T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T04:05:13","slug":"dr-anthony-faucis-voice-has-changed-but-hes-saying-the-same-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/dr-anthony-faucis-voice-has-changed-but-hes-saying-the-same-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Anthony Fauci&#8217;s voice has changed! But he&#8217;s saying the same things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During these Covid-19 times, one of the most recognisable voices on TV has been that of Dr Anthony Fauci. Dr Fauci is a physician and immunologist. He has been the Director of the\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and served under 6 US Presidents. He is a key member of the White House&#8217;s Coronavirus Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>During the early days of the Pandemic, Dr Fauci&#8217;s voice often sounded strained and raspy. Most people simply put it down to his hectic schedule and long hours of work. In actual fact, Dr Fauci had a vocal cord polyp. This required surgery and also 2 weeks of voice rest following surgery &#8211; something that Dr Fauci did not adhere to!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr. Anthony Fauci Talks About Surgery On His Vocal Cords | TODAY\" width=\"617\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w6wjMZZ-c_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, I a patient with a similar condition. He was hoarse and the poor voice was getting in the way of his work. I undertook flexible laryngoscopy to examine his larynx and the picture below shows what I found &#8211; a growth on his left vocal cord.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pic15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pic15-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pic15-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pic15.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The precise term for this lesion is an intracordal vocal cord cyst. The only way to treat this is to surgical remove it. We undertake a procedure called\u00a0<em>Endoscopic Laryngeal Microsurgery\u00a0<\/em>(ELMS) which is performed under general anaesthesia.<\/p>\n<p>The picture below are the operative images before and after surgical removal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG002_thumb.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG002_thumb.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG004_thumb.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG004_thumb.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#054d89; font-size:16px; padding-top:15px;\">\nShare this blog via:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During these Covid-19 times, one of the most recognisable voices on TV has been that of Dr Anthony Fauci. Dr Fauci is a physician and immunologist. He has been the Director of the\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and served under 6 US Presidents. He is a key member of the White House&#8217;s Coronavirus Task Force. During the early&#8230; <br \/><span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/dr-anthony-faucis-voice-has-changed-but-hes-saying-the-same-things\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voice","tag-vocal-cord-polyp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entspecialist.sg\/doctors-corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}