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    I am incredibly frustrated and disappointed today. Devastating cuts to reimbursement for lifesaving colonoscopy exams under Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedule…

  • Being Mortal: A Personal Reflection

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    I just finished reading Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. It was not a spontaneous…

  • What an “IBD-ologist” Learned at DDW

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    I remain an IBD-ologist and at DDW I tend to focus on advances in our field. So, what did I…

  • Why I've Embraced the EHR

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    I’ve recently blogged about how the times are changing and the challenges of moving from a clinician-centric approach to care…

  • Team Medicine

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    The times they are a changing. I was trained by a giant – Joseph Kirsner – but the giants have…

  • "To Kill a MOC-ing" Process

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    ACG’s Immediate past president Harry Sarles deserves credit for stirring the muck of the MOC that evolved to a ground…

  • Quality Matters a Lot, and a Lot of Quality Measures

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    Kudos to the joint ACG/ASGE task force led by Irving Pike and Jonathon Cohen on the joint publications in the…

  • Trick or Treat on Colorectal Cancer Prevention

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    The treat is, that after substantial reductions in payment for EGD codes, CMS announced on Friday, October 31st that it…

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