A patient came to the office and refused to see me, although I was quite willing to see him. I’ll present the scenario followed by the patient’s reason he took an abrupt U-turn. Then, if you are inclined, you may offer your own advice and comment. I performed a colonoscopy on this patient and found a large polyp in the upper part of the large intestine, or colon. The upper part of the colon, or right side of the colon, has been receiving a lot of press in gastroenterology in recent years. Medical studies have observed that cancers in this region are more easily missed for reasons that don’t need to be explained here. For this reason, gastroenterologists are particularly vigilant when examining this region. The polyp was large and somewhat hidden behind a fold of tissue. I suspected that this was a benign lesion. I removed the polyp using one of the gadgets in our bag of tricks, but knew at the time that I had left some polyp tissue behind. I was unable to remove the e
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