Who is the best ENT Doctor?

On Social Media and Google, one of the most ranked queries is the question “Who is the best ENT Doctor?” or “Who is the best ENT Doctor in Trivandrum?”, or “Who is the best ENT Doctor in Kerala?”. If you see the list of websites that consistently show up when patients out of desparation, search for the best ENT doctor in town, invariably most hotshot hospital websites like corporate hospitals, Justdial, Practo and other sponsored websites open up because they have marketing teams advertising for them trying to get their website to show up first.

However, let me ask the question, is there really someone who is the best ENT doctor?

Several of Dr Joel’s Clear ENT clinic patients have opined that Dr Joel is the best ENT doctor in Trivandrum according to their experience. We thank the patients who felt this way. However, do understand that a question like this will only bring out personal opinions. There is never someone who is best at something. There may be expert surgeons. For example, Dr Joel may be one of the best ENT surgeons in Kerala when it comes to nasal endoscopic surgeries, sinus surgeries or adenoid surgeries for kids, but someone else may be best at skulbase surgeries. There may be another expert in cholesteatoma surgery and another more experienced in voice surgeries.

And no patient can claim that a doctor is the best ENT surgeon in Trivandrum or India, as it’s all personal opinion, which is biased. To say objectively that an ENT surgeon in Trivandrum is the best, one needs to have visited all ENT surgeons in Trivandrum, and ranked them in terms of objective parameters of their performance. And that’s practically impossible. No patient can do that. You can use questionairres for collecting data from patients, but as far as we’ve seen there has never been an unbiased study done on this.

And ultimately it doesn’t matter. You can visit any ENT doctor that you trust and have access to. He doesnt have to be the “best ENT doctor in Trivandrum”, or Kerala or India.