As Terri Bohn-Brennum sits in a clinic chair, Dr. Seth Dailey waves a long, black wand before her face, an ice-blue light shining from its tip.
It looks like Dailey is channeling Darth Vader. But he’s actually sparing Bohn- Brennum from a trip to the operating room. The UW Hospital laryngologist is using a pulsed dye laser to remove a polyp from her vocal cords.