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As far as the value of being awake to see the inflamed areas, this is 2019 and any GI doctor worth his or her salt takes digital photos, maintains them in your file and compares each year’s scope pics with the prior year’s, otherwise inflammatory trends would never get noticed. Therefore I make an appointment with my doctor a week after the scope and we analyze the pics together. I have no need to see the pics as they are taken. They aren’t going anywhere. My GI doc emails me the pics and I have them on my phone if you want to see them.

Sylvia- although I don’t recommend propofol for reasons I have already explained, I believe they let you drive afterwards as there is no lingering effects when you arise. The whole point of why doctors use Propofol as a sedation option in the first place, despite its hideous retail expense compared to conscious sedation, is the facility (Yale for example) makes more money because they can move people out of the recovery room more quickly, and do more procedures in a day, thus making more money. Plus they have an anesthesiologist on staff so the cost to them isn’t as great as it will be for you/your insurer.This is exactly in response to your point about wasting of time, but I personally don’t believe someone should agree to submit to Propofol for those reasons. In your case, the Yale methodology of doing mass scopes would probably work well for you. Would also assist their profits as they buy up the rest of New Haven that they do not already own.

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