Wellstar Gastroenterology

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Mon - Fri:	9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Primary Care
With the dawn of the new millennium there came a dramatic shift in the role played by the gastroenterologist in the delivery of health care to our nation. Previously only a small minority of people would ever seek the specialty care of a gastroenterologist. Our skills and training were intended to help the primary care physician diagnose and treat disorders that were often complex or unusual, or that might be straightforward but necessitated the performance of procedures that required years of specialized training to master. But since 2000, the gastroenterologist has become someone that everybody is expected to see, at least by the age of fifty, as one might a dentist or barber, though not with the same frequency. The reason for this change was the recognition that almost everyone could benefit from having a colonoscopy performed for the early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer. We have continued to serve in our original role of providing sub-specialty expertise in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the digestive system (the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, gallbladder, liver, small intestine, colon, rectum and anus), while now providing access to everybody age 50 and over (and younger in special circumstances) for their initial screening and subsequent surveillance colonoscopies

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