Narcisse and Long debate colonoscopy versus FIT test
Narcisse questions why GI isn't among the top services given rising colon cancer rates. Long explains H&H now uses annual FIT tests instead of routine colonoscopies, reserving colonoscopies for patients with abnormal tests or family history.
I will agree and not agree too much on that because the fact is the nurse now going to be not against the doctor, but I will say that
for a person that have history, I will definitely let them go on their colonoscopy.
I think it's more.
So we on the same page on that?
Yes.
If you have an abnormal test in the past or a strong family history, you do need to still get your colonoscopy.
For people that don't fall into those two categories, you're eligible for this new test, which fortunately is many people.
And just to also agree with you, one of the things that I'm proudest of that has enabled all of this to work is we have, I think, one of the best primary care staffing models with ratios for all of the nurses who we can't do anything without that are embedded in each of our primary care teams across our whole system.
We could not do hardly anything we've talked about if we didn't have the right team members.
We all work together.
I love that.
Thank you.