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Patient clears their throat every 40 seconds during a 90-minute meeting. Each clearing is progressively more theatrical than the last. By minute sixty, the clearing has developed a coda. No phlegm is involved. Water has been declined, twice.
Chronic. The throat has been repurposed as an instrument.
Untreatable. A lozenge is perceived as an attack.
Patients with Pathological Throat-Clearing Escalation typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Pathological Throat-Clearing Escalation — a pathological condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Raucedo compulsiva crescendo. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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