Open AccessEndoscopy: Have we gastroenterologists lessened our value through the perception of us as professional proceduralists?
Author(s) -
Sherman Chamberlain
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-5190
DOI - 10.4253/wjge.v2.i1.1
Subject(s) - medicine , endoscopy , primary care , colonoscopy , perception , gastroenterology , colorectal cancer , family medicine , general surgery , cancer , neuroscience , biology
This is a commentary on the recently published meta-analysis by Wilkins et al which concluded that primary care physicians are able to provide comparable quality in performing colonoscopic colon cancer screening as gastroenterologists.