Someone's blog joke about empty nose syndrome
The following link includes a blog post from February 4th from someone joking about empty nose syndrome. I suppose awareness is good, even if from an immature source as this person must have found us on the web, but it is important these people are educated about ENS. http://slynnro.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html

Well you cant really blame them,before i knew about ENS i remember laughing at hearing "chronic fatique syndrome. " Kinda heartless now looking back at it but it does hurt that ENS doesnt have a more technical name. ALthoguh a funny name does get the word out alot easier.

True....and it would be nice for our funny name to spread the word quickly about our condition.

I for one think the name is counter productive, but it has too much professional and academic publicity and millage to be changed. So I guess that for better or worse we are stuck with it... I am certain that many ENS patients refuse to accept they have it with the main reason being this horrible and unsuitable name... I mean come on - who wants to be told that their nose is empty, nothing but bone and skin? But, as I said, se la vi...

Most people dont know there is anything inside the nose! I for one didnt until my nose was not working anymore after surgery. Then you find out all about these things inside the nose!

that's the thing, i bet none of us including some ENTs, don't know much to anything about our natural internal air humidifier/filter/warmer mechanism. Otherwise, we would have avoided any surgery, say like 3 times.

I don't know if this should make anyone here feel better, but there is a saying that "the trouble of many is half a comfort on it's own", so take a look atthis paragraph (taken from Wikipedia article on "Iatrogenesis": Incidence and importance Iatrogenesis is a major phenomenon, and a severe risk to patients. A study carried out in 1981 more than one-third of illnesses of patients in a university hospital were iatrogenic, nearly one in ten were considered major, and in 2% of the patients, the iatrogenic disorder ended in death. Complications were most strongly associated with exposure to drugs and medications.<3> In another study, the main factors leading to problems were inadequate patient evaluation, lack of monitoring and follow-up, and failure to perform necessary -*test*-('")s.<4> In the United State alone, recorded deaths per year (2000): 12,000 -- unnecessary surgery 7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals 20,000 -- other errors in hospitals 80,000 -- infections in hospitals 106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs Based on these figures, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Also, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death (cerebrovascular disease). This totals 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes. In interpreting these numbers, note the following: most data were derived from studies in hospitalized patients. the estimates are for deaths only and do not include negative effects that are associated with disability or discomfort. the estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the IOM report. If higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000.<5> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis

Makes you wonder how they glossed over heath legders death so quickly. Accidental overdose yet he took them as prescribed? How do you accidentally overdose when used as directed? No one in the media questioned this.