A Defining Moment of Harmony
This essay was written for the 2018-2019 HMS Dean's Report in answer to the question "What was your most formative or memorable experience in your medical education at HMS?" Early in my medical training, I observed a laryngologist perform a type 1 thyroplasty on a singer who suffered from vocal fold paralysis. He made a small incision in the skin near the larynx, drilled through the cartilage and then hand-carved a small block of Silastic, securing it inside the vocal fold.
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