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Can you call it a tonsillectomy update when no tonsillectomy took place? Well, there is much to report.
1) Tonsils -Apparently her tonsils are now so small that he wouldn't remove them. He says... 
The commonest reasons for tonsillectomy are:
1. recurrent or chronic infections of the tonsils... therapy are necessary before tonsillectomy should be considered. It is helpful also to document...
infection. Because they are blamed for most cases of repeated throat infections, tonsillectomy is one..., many tonsillectomies today are being performed unnecessarily. Simultaneously, there are too many tonsils still left...
to tonsillectomies performed early in life. Natural News reports:
Analysis of the data showed that children whose tonsils had been removed (tonsillectomy) were 61 percent more likely to be overweight at age eight... 
I wrote a piece for Boing Boing about tonsillectomies that has just been posted. It stemmed from a comment on this blog by a woman named Rachael. A doctor said her son should have a tonsillectomy...
It is strep throat season and long gone are the days when doctors scheduled Tonsillectomies... the tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. He has never had strep throat again. You would think with all of my illnesses...
At our last ENT appointment in June I mentioned the question of doing a tonsillectomy... on?" and I reiterate that the surgeon will do the MLB and then if he thinks she needs the tonsillectomy then he'll... 
and tonsillectomies done? There are many different reasons.... the most common are frequent infections, significant... 
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