Don't be fooled: UnitedHealthcare's advance notification program isn't a solution for prior authorization — it's simply prior authorization by another name and riddled with red flags, AGA President Barbara Jung writes in The Olympian. 🛑 #StopUHC Read more: ow.ly/WAuH50Pgpa8

I usually only post about GI, but the shooting in Allen has hit close to home. Our friend/PA UTSW Gastroenterology Fellowship lost 3 family members (& a 6 year old in the ICU now w/out siblings/parents). Please consider donating to help this child who has lost everything.
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Virtual Grand Rounds @ Lankenau this AM: George Saffouri from UCR Gastroenterology gives us the latest on Helicobacter Pylori. The Curbsiders CORE IM Amanda Long Romy Chamoun, MD Journal of Brown Hospital Medicine Temple Gastroenterology Cynthia Cooper, MD

Looking forward to this! UCR Gastroenterology UCR School of Medicine

All of this happened in IBD this month 👇

🧵 thread featuring:
• VEGA pub
• UPFs & Crohn's
• ADA descalation
• pharma news items
• an amazing 5-ASA story
• serological signatures & CD
• IFX biosimilar multi-switching
• a brilliant new website of IBD trials

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🤔Why does the diagnosis of Streptococcus bovis bacteremia immediately raise the specter of colon cancer?

If colon cancer leads to barrier disruption and translocation of bacteria into the blood, shouldn't E. coli bacteremia raise the same concern?

Is S. bovis unique?

Lifting Universal Masking in Schools — Covid-19 Incidence among Students and Staff | NEJM

⁦Freakonomics, M.D.⁩ I found the next episode! Is there like an award or… prize… nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

We want to thank Edward Loftus for coming out to the IE and sharing his expertise on IBD, and ACG for the ACG Edgar Achkar Visiting Professorship.

EVL signing off!

A privilege to learn from you once again. Our fellows were lucky to hear from one of the Jedi masters this week!

Many thanks to ACG for the wonderful visiting professorship program.
Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology & Hepatology UCR School of Medicine

I spent many hours last week observing the practice of medicine while sitting at my mom’s hospital bedside and was reminded of some important communication pearls. Some musings…
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Say hi and bye to H. pylori infections! We review the basics of H. pylori screening, refresh your memory on testing basics, discuss treatment strategies, and talk through eradication testing with gastroenterologist Dr. George Saffouri (George Saffouri) mailchi.mp/thecurbsiders/… #meded

1. Visit medicalemoji.org + follow MedicalEmoji

2. Read letters signed by American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) ASGE GI Endoscopy AASLD leaders so far!💌

3. Sign the Change.org petition 📝

4. Read JAMA paper from Sept. 2021

5. RT this!

Let’s raise awareness together!

Hey #GITwitter ! Announcing the #MedicalEmoji 2022 campaign!

Ever wonder how 🫀🫁 emojis came about?

I’m helping @ShuhanHeMD by lead the GI effort with AGA, ASGE, AASLD leaders to add these GI MedicalEmoji to The Unicode Consortium this year (10 total to be submitted)

Ways to help are…

78 yo M w/severe dementia, no other comorbidities, admitted w poor PO intake, AKI.
You are asked to place a PEG tube.

Family insistent on it. You discuss evidence arguing against G-tube in severe dementia. Family acknowledges but still wishes for the tube. #GITwitter

Do you:

Help us spread the word - new federal guidance out of U.S. Department of Labor today that plans must cover follow up colonoscopy after a positive stool test.

Hernando Gonzalez, MD, FASGE, y Cadman L. Leggett, MD, conversan con Carlos Andres Buitrago, MD, sobre el estudio titulado “Guía del ASGE en el manejo de la Colangitis” publicado en agosto de 2021 en la revista GIE Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. giejournal.org/pb/assets/raw/…