DECEMBER 18, 2019

Are You the Very Model of a Modern Colonoscopist?

(With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan)

Are your colonoscopies ready for 2020? Do you understand approaches from the simple to the technical?

At the 2019 Digestive Disease Week, a group of expert endoscopists shared their tips for how clinicians can improve the quality of their examinations.

“We have reduced the risk of colorectal cancer by approximately 50%, but we have an opportunity and an obligation to do even better,” Michael B. Wallace, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., said in the