Should NPs Perform Colonoscopies? New Study Leads to Controversy
A new study from John Hopkins is causing quite a stir on social media. It centers on three nurse practitioners who were trained to perform colonoscopies. The study looked at more than 1,000 patients who received this procedure from the NPs between 2010 and 2016, 75% of whom were black.
The study is raising eyebrows for its questionable ethics; some have been criticizing it for its lack of consent and transparency.
The Need for Colonoscopies
The medical community is bracing for a surge in demand for colonoscopies as the population continues to age and baby boomers head into retirement. It’s considered a life-saving cancer screening tool, but many men are reluctant to sign up for the procedure.
The doctor becomes a patient
There’s little Michael Dick, MD, hasn’t seen in 27 years in the Emergency Department at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Dick is medical director of Emergency Medicine at Ohio State East Hospital and professor of Emergency Medicine. His is a physically and emotionally demanding job. But he doesn’t get a reprieve when he takes off his scrubs. He isn’t just fighting on the front lines of COVID-19, he’s also fighting cancer.
Like most Americans, 2020 tested Dr. Dick’s body and psyche. But his battle has been different than most. In the waning months of 2019, he started to feel pain in his neck and shoulders. Reluctant to get it checked out, it soon became impossible to ignore. An X-ray of his thoracic spine a stack of 12 tightly pressed bones in the spinal column revealed a tumor in his lung. A subsequent CT scan revealed another in his liver. The tumors had irritated the nerves in his thoracic spine and all the pain had dum
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At a time when medical researchers are under pressure to increase diversity in clinical trials, a Johns Hopkins study is sparking outrage among some physicians because of its large number of Black patients.
The controversy has stoked concerns that the institution infamous for its role in the Henrietta Lacks story may have once again exploited marginalized people for medical research. The university denies any wrongdoing and instead said it was simply providing a service to its local community, which has a mostly Black population.
The paper was published last fall without much notice but caused a stir on social media in recent weeks. It was a retrospective study analyzing the abilities of three specially trained nurse practitioners to perform colonoscopies, an invasive and potentially lifesaving cancer screening procedure normally done by gastroenterologists. Of the more than 1,000 patients who received screening colonoscopies from the nurse practitioners between 2010 and 201
Moments Grill and Lounge on the Southeast Side has certainly had its moments over the last two years, according to Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein.
Since March 2019, Klein says the bar at 2545 Petzinger Road in a neighborhood shopping center near Route 33 and Interstate 70 East has been the source of more than 100 police complaints and calls for service.
Among those calls have been seven shootings, a stabbing, seven felonious assaults, a drug overdose, eight felony thefts, some 20 disturbances and more, Klein s office reported in a news release.
In one of these shooting incidents on July 10, the victim was a Columbus police officer working as a special duty security guard.
“The state trooper’s car is on fire and. I think he might burn alive.”
The wrong-way driver had collided head-on with the young trooper leaving Jason unconscious and trapped inside. A few cars behind was former Army medic, Sergeant First Class, Joe Yeichner.
“Once I pushed the window open, within 30 seconds after getting Jason out, the driver’s seat was in flames,” says Joe.
Joe stabilized Jason’s neck for 15 minutes until EMS and other troopers arrived.
“Jason was bleeding from his right arm, his shoulder, but his right leg was a mess,” says Joe. “‘Buddy, you’re going to be all right. There’re other troopers here. Relax, you’re okay.’”