Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started ...

Your doctor may recommend performing your colonoscopy under general anesthesia, meaning you’ll be fully asleep, or with sedation, which keeps you relaxed and drowsy, but still awake. If you’re ...

Short-term, limited-duration insurance policies don't have to follow Affordable Care Act rules because they are intended to ...

Here are three notes on the relationship between ASCs and colonoscopies in 2025: 1. Gastrointestinal procedures make up a ...

I’ve never been under anesthesia, so you gotta do that,” said Joshi. When the next year came around, he put it off again. Joshi said he wasn’t opposed to getting a colonoscopy; he just didn ...

“We found…something.” Those were the first words I heard while waking up from anesthesia after my first colonoscopy at the age of 36. I was a young, working mom in the prime of my career as ...

Or they have a fear of having a medical procedure, or the risk of anesthesia doesn't make a colonoscopy the right choice for them. Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham ...