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		watersb on Sept 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US doctors are hoping to start offering women vagi... "Ear, Nose, Throat" is a clinical medicine specialty in the US. Don't know about the rest of the world. But yeah: every interface between inside and outside of the human body is a great place to look for microbiome etiology.

overkalix on Sept 27, 2019 [–]

Of course it is a specialty. In romance languages (at least Catalan, Spanish, French and Portuguese) we call them otorhinolaringologists - otorrino/otorhino for short. I have to say, the ENT doctor thing has always seemed very silly to me.

maxerickson on Sept 28, 2019 | [–]

English too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otorhinolaryngology

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