{"id":1719,"date":"2015-10-26T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phcprimarycare.org\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2015-10-19T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:55:03","slug":"memories-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phcprimarycare.org\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Memories Fade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memories fade.\u00a0 Like looking through a fogged mirror\u2026or scope<\/p>\n

How quickly fades from our minds the delightful memories of our adventures in dreamy Colonoscopyland.\u00a0 In a recent news release from the American College of Surgeons, \u00a0it was determined that the important details about the appropriate screening schedules for colo-rectal cancer for a patient fades with time.<\/p>\n

The study<\/a>, authored by Dr. Amer Alame, a colorectal surgeon at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, \u00a0randomly selected 50 post colonoscopy patients for each of 4 time periods since their procedure – 2 months, one, two, \u00a0and four years.\u00a0 At two months post procedure, nearly everybody, 94%, could recall the date within one month of their colonoscopy.\u00a0 That recall fell to 42%, 30% and \u00a028% by one, two, and four years, respectively.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more alarming, the percentage who knew about polyps on their endoscopy was 65.2%, 31.6%, 35.7% and 37.5% in the four groups.\u00a0 Even worse \u2013 those who could accurately recall the number of polyps found on their exam was a paltry 39.1%, 10.5%, 7.1% and 6.25%.\u00a0 Well, at least it beats my personal recall of my children\u2019s birthdays and ages.<\/p>\n

So this brings us to consider three things:<\/p>\n