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other than the extremely high salaries?
other than the extremely high salaries?
Agree with above.
Colonoscopies and other procedures are cash cows for right now. Also, GI has better hours than other procedural specialties like general surgery and cardiovascular medicine. The only real GI emergencies are acute GI bleeds.
How related is this to the increase in screening, i.e. colonoscopy every year or every other year, or whatever the recommendation is? How much is related to actual signs/symptoms that suggest a colonoscopy is needed?
I would expect that with a rocky economy, people will cut down on the screening and go when they're in pain or something looks wrong.
please explain "something looks wrong."
Agree with above.
Colonoscopies and other procedures are cash cows for right now. Also, GI has better hours than other procedural specialties like general surgery and cardiovascular medicine. The only real GI emergencies are acute GI bleeds.
Even then acute gi bleeds are only emergencies during regular business hours. Otherwise it's too unstable for a scope or they're stable enough to wait till the morning.
There are occasional bleeders that require a scope after hours. Not many though. And since this is a common refrain/complaint about GI, how many GI bleeders have died waiting for a scope, in your experience?
Now if we could just find a way to hold the *&^*&! food impactions off until morning, that would be perfect.