COLONOSCOPY AND COLOGUARD

OK. Let’s talk about everybody’s favorite topic, colonoscopy.  If you are over 50, it is a good bet that essentially every time you see a doctor, you are asked when your last colonoscopy was, and if you don’t give the right answer, they try to shame you into getting one.  I think we need to talk about three things:  why […]

WHY DO I HAVE ABNORMAL LABS?

“Doc, I feel fine, but when I looked on the portal, my labs are abnormal.  What’s wrong with me?” I hear this several times a week, and even more common are the folks who do not bother to look at the portal, but become very disturbed when they come in to review the labs with me and see highlighted “abnormal” […]