I am an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Co-Author of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact. Co-Founder of Writing In Color.org. Wife and a mother to three children. Eager to discuss current challenges in healthcare.
, an emergency medicine physician, was 36 when she developed bloody stools. She regularly exercised, rarely consumed red meat or alcohol and had no concerning family history. She thought colo rectal cancer was “an older man’s disease” and assumed the scant, intermittent bleeding was a new diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome. However, at age 40, the volume and frequency of bleeding increased.
World War I Tactics Make A Comeback As A Ukrainian Gunner In The Back Of A Propeller Plane Shoots Down A Russian Drone In a world full of multiple culprits leading to colorectal cancer, there is readily accessible online misinformation. “One of my goals is to be a voice of accurate medical information,” says gastroenterologist Dr. Austin Chiang, author of. Chiang often reviews evidence and guidelines and debunks myths related to GI topics, like colorectal cancer. He believes much of the delay in diagnosis is because people don’t want to talk about their stool, colon, ostomy or blood.
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