Tuesday Talk Show's Podcast

This is a good one. Bottom line, gastroenterologists are against virtual colonoscopies because they think it takes business away from them. Primary care physicians don't routinely support virtuals because they don't know much about them and therefore defer to the gastroenterologists. This leaves 33% of us getting a conventional colonoscopy, and approximately 66% of us not getting any colon screening for bunches of reasons. And we wonder why colon cancer remains the 2nd leading cause of cancer related deaths in the U.S. And...it's a disease that is over 90% curable if found early with appropriate screening. Hear what Dr. Bill Blanchet has to say.