Mixed Topics
Letter from the Editor
New medical ethics series debuts
The first issue of The New Gastroenterologist in 2020 consists of a particularly interesting array of articles and the introduction of a...
DDSEP® 8 Quick Quiz
February 2020: Question 1
DDSEP® 9 Quick Quiz
In Case You Missed It
February 2020 – ICYMI
A selection of articles from AGA publications.
The New Gastroenterologist
AGA News
A roundup of news items of interest to residents and early-career gastroenterologists.
The New Gastroenterologist
Calendar
Information about upcoming events and award deadlines.
Ethics
Endoscopy in a do-not-resuscitate patient: Practical and ethical considerations
Often the most difficult decisions we make as clinicians are fraught with ethical implications which can be daunting and difficult to navigate....
Commentary
Tectonic shift
Every community practice gastroenterologist knows that private equity is making an aggressive push into our specialty. This is a tectonic shift in...
Postfellowship Pathways
Developing a career in nutrition support and small-bowel disorders
Gastroenterologists, in particular, have a special responsibility related to nutrition in disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and are in a...
Financial/Legal
Pitfalls in physician-patient communication via patient access support portals
While communication via a patient access support portal has the potential to free up medical staff for direct patient care, such communication...
Commentary
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...