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You’ve
Had Your Colonoscopy: Congratulations.
You’ve gotten your colonoscopy done, and you’re clean.
Oh, I meant clean of polyps, but I’m sure you enjoyed your
clear liquid diet and Golytely‚, Phosphosoda‚, or Visacol‚
prep, didn’t you? Congratulations
on having had your colonoscopy…wasn’t so bad, was it?
You have joined an elite group of Americans…Unfortunately people
are not getting their colonoscopy done! Now it’s time to join
in a vast army of colonoscopy naggers, and accept my ‘Cheek
Check Challenge’! Early
detection of colon cancer leads to cure in 90%, yet we only detect
38% in the early stages. It attacks men and women equally, and will
beset 6% of Americans. Although most major insurers now cover colon
cancer screening by colonoscopy for average risk, assymptomatic
patients over 50…
I
dare YOU to take the ‘Cheek Check Challenge’! Stand
up, and reach your hands down low behind you and grab. You should
now be in contact with your own behind. Count your number of buttocks.
This should be easy. Most people have two. The
‘Cheek Check Challenge’ will honor your two buttocks,
and the vertical smile between. I challenge you, for the next twenty-five
consecutive days after reading this issue (and having had your colonoscopy
done), to recommend to two people per day (one in honor of each
buttock) that they have a colonoscopy. For
the next 25 days, recommend colonoscopy to YOUR family, friends,
coworkers, or acquaintances over age 50. Your mailman, your minister,
rabbi, or pastor, your dry cleaning clerk. Your next door neighbor.
Your spouse. Your best friends. Your Christmas card list. Your child’s
soccer coach or teacher. Your mother-in-law. Your brother. Everybody’s
got a colon…just trust me on this. Just two a day…that’s
both your goal and your limit. Number
a sheet of paper, from one to fifty, and write down their names
as you tell them, these people who touch your life. These people
who you may have influenced with your real life story of how simple
colonoscopy is, and how potentially lifesaving. If
you tell two family, friends, or coworkers per day, and they get
a colonoscopy done…and you do the ‘Cheek Check Challenge’
for the twenty-five days I asked of you… THREE people close to YOU will have early detection or prevention of a colon cancer! Not a bad twenty five days work! Congratulations! YOU have completed the Cheek Check Challenge! Now give me a big vertical smile! Virginia Beach gastroenterologist, Patricia L. Raymond M.D. FACG is an author and consultant, who speaks to nurses and physicians through hospital systems and medical conventions. With her company Rx For Sanity™, she humorously leads physicians and nurses to rediscover their joy in medicine and to learn to first “Turn Care Inward”. Her book, “Don’t Jettison Medicine: Resuscitate Your Passion For The Career You Loved!” is available now. Visit www.RxForSanity.com for complimentary information and links to better care for yourself and for your staff, and to subscribe to our FREE monthly newsletter, Rx For Sanity™ eNews, with medical humor and simple tips to enhance your life in Medicine.© 2003 Patricia L. Raymond
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