Word: gastroenterologist
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...Prize have been swirling around Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren as far back as 1997-at least in Western Australia, where the two scientists are local heroes, and where I was once a medical writer for the local newspaper in Perth, my hometown. As a joke, Marshall, a gastroenterologist, and Warren, a now-retired pathologist, had even taken to sharing a beer down by the Swan River in Perth every year when the Nobel for medicine was announced...
...that the size of the polyp suggests it has been growing for a long time, perhaps years or decades. Even before the conference, however, other physicians were questioning why it had not been detected earlier either by a colonoscopic inspection or a barium enema. Said Dr. Stephen Hanauer, a gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago: "The bottom line was, if he had either blood in his stool or a polyp last year, then our way of dealing with that is to recommend examination of the entire colon for polyps." The President's doctors stood fast, explaining that they had decided...
...perspective accompanying the new studies, Dr. Thomas Imperiale, a gastroenterologist at Indiana University School of Medicine, takes pains to remind readers that aspirin alone is not a substitute for regular colonoscopy screenings, which enable doctors to locate and snip off growths before they become cancerous. It is also worth remembering that there are other ways to prevent colon cancer, including reducing the saturated fats in your diet and increasing your intake of folate-rich leafy green vegetables. You should probably also limit your consumption of red meat, processed meats and refined carbohydrates. And if you smoke, you should definitely quit...
When he retired in 1997 upon being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, Malt was chief of gastroenterologist surgery, chief of the Nutritional Support Unit, and surgical chief of the Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Center...
...presented any legal challenges to cross-border plans, but it criticizes them. "We always have to be concerned with the quality," says former AMA president Richard Corlin, a gastroenterologist in Santa Monica, Calif. Corlin remembers a patient telling him about a medication he was taking, which Corlin immediately recognized as a drug banned a year earlier in the U.S. because it produced sometimes fatal heart arrhythmia. "He said, 'I get it in Mexico.' Is there someone controlling what they have access to and what they haven't? We do a pretty good job of that in this country...