I haven’t yet had a colonoscopy, but I’m getting old enough that my doctor will probably want me to have one soon. I’m not looking forward to it, but having a few hours of pain every year or two seems very much preferable to having colon cancer go undetected long enough for it to metastasize.

Then theres the intestinal scan where you take a course of clean out meds and they poke this scope with a fiber optic pipe and a light, and put up your posterior and there on a screen is the inside of your intestines, all pink and shiny. I said to the doc you mut have a steering wheel on that thing, he said I do.

So, they gave it to him to play with:

http://www.babygorilla.com/warehouse/anatomy/boyheart/boyheart.html

I think that’s a load of crap. If he’s ill and needs it removed, any agreement they make him sign is made under duress. It’s part of his body, so he should have all title and ownership of it. He’s perfectly willing to let them take a portion of it for pathology, but there’s no reason they need all of it.

I suspect that the reason they won’t let him have it is that they want to make sure that if they screw up, he won’t have anything that can be used as physical evidence.

Eric