Four GI physicians were featured in the news this past week:
Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Medical Center colorectal surgeon Charles Friel, MD, dressed up as a red colon polyp to educate staff and patients about colon cancer prevention.
Gastroenterologist Vaibhav Wadhwa, MD, met with an associate of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to discuss step therapy reform.
Theodore A. DeCosta, MD, recently opened The Gastro Center in West Orange, N.J.
Kevin Liebovich, MD, a gastroenterologist at Gurnee, Ill.-based Lake Shore Gastroenterology, weighed the pros and cons of at-home fecal immunochemical tests and colonoscopies in a Milwaukee Business Journal article.