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My Colonoscopy Experience: A Gastroenterologist Gets Some of His Own Medicine
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By David Farrar, M.D.- Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing, Minn.
I knew something wasn’t quite right listening to the message on our answering machine early last October. It was my dad. 
"David, give me a call. I’ve got to talk to you about something." Calling back, somehow I wasn’t that surprised when he told me almost immediately, “I had my colonoscopy last week, and they found an early cancer. So you know what that means.” I knew exactly what he meant — I needed a colonoscopy. My dad, also a gastroenterologist, knows the recommendations for colon cancer screenings as well as I do.
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