A Virginia man inadvertently left his phone recording while he was under anesthesia for a colonoscopy, which captured audio of the doctors: mocking him, instructing a medical assistant to lie to him, and discussing giving him a false diagnosis of hemorrhoids. In 2015, a jury awarded him $500,000.

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[u/xannieh666]

I am as low risk as you come. I have 0 people in my family that have had it. I dont drink , smoke or anything else like that. Finally had my colonoscopy done. They removed a pre cancerous lesion and now I have to have another in 3 years. I was shocked

[u/masimbasqueeze → u/xannieh666]

Gastroenterologist here - pre cancerous polyps are exceedingly common. I remove them in about 70% of the colonoscopies I perform. It’s good to remove them when they’re small, long before they ever cause you a problem.

[u/themetahumancrusader → u/masimbasqueeze]

Are all/most polyps pre cancerous? I had a colonoscopy a few years ago and apparently a small polyp or two got removed, but nothing scary was mentioned to me or in the paperwork

[u/Grasshopper_pie → u/themetahumancrusader]

There are different kinds of polyps; I believe the tuberous (?) kind are precancerous. That's what I had, and I think they are pretty common.