Doctors Challenge Each Other To Perform Better Cancer Screening
Colon cancer is a serious problem plaguing people throughout the world and doctors are working hard to find increasingly better methods of catching the disease in its early stages in order to reduce the risk of death it can cause. The best method of disease detection to date is the virtual colonoscopy. And two doctors recently
challenged each other to see which one could outperform the other in using this method to detect signs of the disease.
What was interesting about this challenge was that it caused a gastroenterologist and a radiologist to compete against one another. It was assumed that the radiologist would be more successful in detecting colon cancer polyps with the virtual colonoscopy. However, this was incorrect. The gastroenterologist was the one who won the challenge.
This does not necessarily mean that every gastroenterologist is going to be better at reading the virtual colonoscopy than a radiologist would be. Both types of doctors are competent in this area of study. But it shows that you may be interested in more carefully reviewing your options when choosing a doctor so that you get the best person for the job.
Question of the Day: Would you prefer to have a gastroenterologist or radiologist do your virtual colonoscopy?photo link
