YouTube appears to be an unreliable resource for accurate and up to date medical information relating to rhinosinusitis. However, it may provide some useful information if mechanisms existed to direct lay people to verifiable and credible sources.

The importance of providing patients with adequate additional information prior to the consenting process for a surgical procedure has long been established. This information is intended to provide sufficient detail to allow the patient to make an informed decision about the proposed surgical intervention. indeed, the general Medical Council states this in Good Medical Practice: patients must be given sufficient information, in a way that they can understand, in order to enable them to exercise their right to make informed decisions about their care.

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Following the introduction of the European Working Time Regulations (EWTR) and the Hospital at Night teams the majority of overnight ENT work is now covered by trainees without any prior knowledge of ENT.1 The number of trainees covering ENT out of hours without previous experience has been found to be between 68%‐100% in recent studies.1‐2 More worryingly, a recent article examining hospital at night trainees cross covering ENT revealed that only 28% of those polled had received some training in airway emergencies previously.3