Questions tagged [gastroenterology]

I just spent a half hour in a gastroenterologist's office talking with him about my history, problems, diet, etc. and getting a basic physical exam. He wants to do an upper endoscopy. Is it normal for the same doctor to do all of the above? My…

I was doing some research on gay health outcomes and came across some very old studies with very high prevalence rates for gastrointestinal parasites among gay men. (https://jcm.asm.org/content/24/4/684) Now, these are very old studies, so I take…

What GI issues need to be diagnosed/treated early lest they cause permanent damage or become unrecoverable. An example would colon cancer. The question is about which possible diagnoses need to be crossed off the list before it is reasonable to…

Recently I looked at my personal health file and saw that I was diagnosed with GERD some 6 years ago. This seemed strange to me since I did not remember any occasion in which I was positively diagnosed with this disease (I did not even know what it…