Talk:Stapedectomy

Unfortunately this topic, among others regarding the ear and hearing, has included information for "The Lippy Library" and William Lippy while neglecting others in the field with contributions at least equal in significance. This portion of the content would be more appropriately listed on a Biographical page for Dr. Lippy.

24.23.88.244 (talk) 17:55, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Respectfully disagree. Dr. Lippy has performed by an order of magnitude more surgical procedures, 25,000 more papers 60 and more book chapters than any of his current peers and is the only physician in the world actively and routinely specializing in revision surgery. In addition, Dr. Lippy has taken his 40 years of experience and posted it online free in order to share it with the entire world. This is the absolute right place for physicians and stapes patients to find out about this body of work - right her in Wikipedia. Dr. Lippy is a national treasure and is making himself available to the world. It is completely inappropriate and very unprofessional for the person who keeps coming to this site and erasing this posting.

75.179.169.151 (talk) 17:55, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

A goal of Wikipedia is provide an accurate reference with editing open to the community. I will assume that your intent is to contribute appropriately to the knowledge base available here. ( It would certainly be inappropriate, if not unethical, to leave undisclosed a personal or financial interest in the material. ) As such, the recommendation from a more experienced editor contacted is that the reference should be moved further into the body of the page rather than placed at the intro paragraph. Revision stapedectomy is not the topic at hand and would be covered later in the paragraph as it expands. There is a great deal of room for growth of the section as the information provided is limited. A discussion of Stapedectomy as it is currently performed would be much improved with the recognition of the contributions of numerous physicians past and present. e.g. the Lippy modification of the Robinson bucket-handle prosthesis would not have existed without Dr. Robinson's contributions. Doctor Robinson would and does deserve a reference. I maintain that Dr. Lippy has earned a biographical page. That would be linked from the reference on this page and could then be further linked as deemed appropriate.

158.93.190.31 (talk) 18:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I have moved the link to Dr. Lippy's site with the rest of the external links. While it is a relevant link, it should be placed within the "external links" section of the site, rather than in the body itself. (More info: External_links). Thanks,  Super  Hamster  (Talk) (Contributions) 04:07, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Please stop removing the references to The Lippy Library as it receives 500 visitors per day mostly from physicians interested in the more than 24 free videos covering 60 peer review papers and 6 books chapters by Dr. Lippy and his partners. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.179.169.151 (talk) 06:59, 18 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I understand that. The link was never removed, it was placed in the bottom of the page amongst the other external links where it belongs. If a physician is looking for the link, they can find it, and other external links at the bottom of the page. Placing it in the body of the article will be referenced to as link spamming and it will be removed. Thank you.  Super  Hamster  (Talk) (Contributions) 16:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I revised the article with extra information that will hopefully contribute to recognizing Dr. Lippy's contributions but also putting them in perspective. For instance, the two Dr. Causse did more stapedectomies and revisions than Dr. Lippy can claim to date, and their clinic has much more cumulative experience than his - as others such as the House Ear Institute may well have. The LION network provides information for surgeons that is more scientifically essential than the information, largely for general practitioners and laypeople, that is contained in most of the Lippy group's videos. That said, extra details and neutral references (but not self-references) are welcome pertaining to Dr. Lippy and his colleagues too.Truth or consequences-2 (talk) 15:58, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Way too much history in header
I think this should all be moved to a history section, replacing the header with only a description of the basic procedure(s). When I looked this up I just wanted a description of the surgeries, not a litany of inventors and pioneering surgeons.--Xris0 (talk) 16:31, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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