前记2007年10月,美国外科医师学院在新奥尔良召开了第93届临床外科会议。本届会议的主席是美国小儿耳鼻咽喉头颈外科专家Gerald B Healy教授。这是美国外科医师学院88年来第一次由耳鼻咽喉头颈外科医师担任主席,这说明耳鼻咽喉头颈外科已经成为外科的重要组成部分。回顾半个多世纪以来,耳鼻咽喉科从一个被当时一些外科医师轻视的学科发展到今天的规模, In October 2007, the American College of Surgeons held its 93rd Clinical Surgery Conference in New Orleans. The chairman of this session is Professor Gerald B Healy, a specialist in pediatric otolaryngology and head and neck surgery in the United States. This is the first time that the College of American College of Surgeons has been chaired by otolaryngology head and neck surgeons in 88 years, indicating that otolaryngology and head and neck surgery have become an important part of surgery. Looking back over half a century, otolaryngology has evolved from a discipline that some surgeons were despising to today’s scale,