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Starting to assess the toll

This morning, Megan A. Adams (a GI & Hepatology News Associate Editor and a Michigan faculty member) and I held an hour-long video...

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Let’s learn from our experience

The best of our country has been demonstrated by our frontline health care workers, grocery clerks, people who deliver our packages, and...

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Failure is not an option

Gene Kranz was the NASA Flight Director during the Gemini and Apollo space flights, including Apollo 11 (moon landing) and Apollo 13. He has...

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Hope springs eternal

We all want to do what is best for patients. We hope our treatments will improve actual health outcomes (and not intermediate process metrics), so...

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Tectonic shift

Every community practice gastroenterologist knows that private equity is making an aggressive push into our specialty. This is a tectonic shift in...

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Inner demons

We have marveled at the miracles of fecal microbiome transplants, but this month we read about an inner demon -- patients who developed bacteremia...

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Digital disruption

Virtual care, telehealth, remote patient monitoring, telecommuting and other digital innovations are becoming standards for health systems. Now is...

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Food as therapy and toxin

In this issue we feature stories from the 2019 James W. Freston Conference. The topic of this year’s meeting was “Food at the intersection of gut...

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