A trip to the mall

AM Clarfield - CMAJ, 2001 - Can Med Assoc
What a ridiculous figure I must have cut: a middle-aged, balding doctor, dressed for work in
my sports jacket, tie and cuffed pants with the family's five gas-mask kits slung over my …

Another reason to stop avoiding that colonoscopy

C Menashe - The Washington Post, 2014 - go.gale.com
No one really expects to go to the doctor for shoulder pain and end up with a cancer
diagnosis. Well, maybe those of us who are hypochondriacs would, but my husband …

Colonoscopy: No one loves having a camera stuck up their butt, but this procedure is a crucial cancer screening.

B Howard - Prevention, 2023 - go.gale.com
Colon cancer is on the rise for people under 50, and the best way to discover it early is with
a colonoscopy. With that in mind, the US Preventive Services Task Force recently updated …

Kill the Sitz bath and save the planet

L Gottesman - Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 2018 - journals.lww.com
GOTTESMAN: KILL THE SITZ BATH 646 bath. The energy consumption of producing the
product is significant. 8 Sitz bath plastics, which are contaminated after use, do not go into …

A 71-year-old woman contemplating a screening colonoscopy

WC Taylor - JAMA, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
DR BURNS: Ms G is a 71-year-old woman with a past medical history of osteoporosis, mitral
valve prolapse, mild rheumatoid arthritis, and hypothyroidism. She has Medicare. Ms G is …

Intestinal Gas: Charting Your Course Through a Perilous Miasma

P Raymond - Gastroenterology Nursing, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Much is made known regarding the need to educate patients and the public on colorectal
cancer. Yet, statistics state that there remains a vast number of people who have not yet …

Toxic gas may have a therapeutic future

D Gordon - Gastroenterology, 2000 - Elsevier
“This provides evidence for what we believed, which is that barium enema is not a very
accurate test in detecting polyps of various sizes... even the larger ones,” said the article's …

The day of my friend's colonoscopy

AM Carson - Going Down Swinging, 2006 - search.informit.org
The day of my friend's colonoscopy Page 1 The Day of My Friend's Colonoscopy AM
Carson Brutalising the day, machinery throbs; sounds so pervasive they vibrate foot soles …

Smoke-free future.

E Wilson - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
D r. Stuart R. Glaser's article" Utilization of sigmoidos-copy by family physicians in
Canada"(Can Med Assoc J 1994; 150: 367-371) reveals that rigid sigmoidoscopy is …

[CITATION][C] Mercy Me: The Opportunity of a Lifetime

JL Kaesberg - ASA Monitor, 2011 - pubs.asahq.org
It is cafeteria-style, not unlike many hospital cafeterias, but all-you-can-eat! Like any
famished resident would, I successfully overate and subsequently felt sick at almost every …