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Neurotology and I

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A long period of time has elapsed since my last blog. I ask my readers to apologize me. I had the idea that in my old age I would have less work to do and plenty of leisure time. It is not so. It seems that I have more and more things to do. But I cannot complain, because I love my work. One of my Neurotology professors, Dr. Wallace Rubin, has died recently. He was a very good friend and we visited each other many, many times. We have been together in New Orleans, where he lived, but also in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Palm Beach, Cancún, Bad Kissingen and, of course, in São Paulo. Maybe it is because of him that I am now reminiscing about my adventures in Neurotology. For my readers that are not physicians or audiologists, this is the interface between Otology and Neurology. We deal with the labyrinth. We mainly treat vertigo, disequilibrium and unsteadiness. Dr. Claus-Frenz Claussen, Dr. Wallace Rubin and I My first Professor of Neurotology was Dr. José Santiago Riesco Ma