This past week, I had a once-in-a-career event. Indeed, if I didn’t already author a blog, this episode would have been the catalyst to begin one. As I write this, I am not certain which category label to assign to this post. I will likely include it in General Whistleblowing rather than create a new category called Search and Rescue. Gastroenterologists are not just healers of the alimentary canal. Yes, we are consumed with issues of mastication, salivation, rumination, trituration (GI power word), secretion, digestion, propulsion and elimination. But, we are so much more than this. We are poised to serve humanity in so many ways beyond medicine. The colonoscope is mankind’s Holy Grail. Please study the photograph below carefully. When we were medical students peering at a chest x-ray while the attending physician hovered behind us, we were told that “the answer is on the film”. Of course, we always missed the diagnosis. We would focus on the heart and lung
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