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Originally Posted by Moneyguy1

After what happened to my wife, I will only agree to non invasive testing (MRI, CT, sonograms, x-rays). Sorry, but my faith in the medical profession overall has been eroded to a point where I do not trust many doctors and certainly not invasive procedures.
My "tour de force" to ge to the bottom of the problem that took Kathryn's life has resulted in denial, possible cover-up (I had to threaten legal action because the death certificate originally did not even mention the perforated colon), and refusal to supply speific information (attorney is dealing with that). Currently, that specific doctor is under investigation by the AZ Medical Board.

On a less emotional side: If you must, go to your State Medical Board website and check out your physician. Also you can check on the record of the hispital and whether your physician in Board Certified and in what disciplines. After Kathryn died, I found that her gastroenterologist's license was revoked in California and he had two letters of "censure(?)" in Arizona; one for failure to properly diagnose colon cancer and the other for failure to monitor prescription drug usage/effects.

So please fogive me for the contrarian view. I simply advocate caution. One in 500 colonoscopies will result in a perforation. However, I cannot seem to ge anyone verify what percentage of those with perforations die.

I agree...I've weighed the options. Through my own personal experience, too lengthy to go into here, I too have lost faith in the so called medical community.
No way in hell are they going to shove a tube up my donkey.

They almost killed me once. I'm not going to give them the opportunity to do so again. If I get colon cancer? So be it!