In 1994, Rob Hawes and I joined the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, to found a multi-disciplinary Digestive Disease Center. We were both experts in minimally invasive treatments, using endoscopes through the mouth or anus to manage clinical problems that previously required open surgery. While the endoscopes themselves were well […]
Our Apollo story…..we boldly went Read More »
In case you might like to read my recent review “Fifty years of ERCP”, here is the link https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XN~p3mGpVzge
Fifty years of ERCP Read More »
If you have 43 minutes to spare, here is a recording of my recent presentation at MUSC Medicine Grand rounds. http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/v/medicine/20171130_Cotton.html
50 years in the Bile duct and Pancreas Read More »
Just back from three great weeks in England, visiting our special families, as described in my last blog. I took the opportunity to reconnect with several friends from the (very) distant past, and cannot resist sharing them with you. Joe Clayton and I met 60 years ago, in 1957, when we both represented Cambridge University
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A survey of credentialing for ERCP in the United States https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2017.03.1530 How much pain relief do patients expect after cholecystectomy? http://em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=KP7O1RED-2BlD0F9LDqGVeSMQmWdTq9BpXT-2FFE5lpsKp0-3D_RLjM3EiP19d2W-2BRyiC55StGEdECkMlY3fp4OuMSsuV6A6CyvAgFp7ZpI71eXSVN2jI7O7AlSUceKnPqeNH05tsIaS6TUlFcZUFcc82Z80Z5VbaXFsA09PjLjhtEe0RRGCSF7-2Br0mpAtjZLf3-2BCqRlUWCZXCeTVOR0tdfgf-2FUnxlDoZFCjoXduHYaRfC78Yn6u7-2FIfclrP4UR3k-2F70kMc9ivF2ILxjcv3eAlzsMDmdmD1T5th86GcjvyHrAB6rUxWVfKUA7wYX-2FzPVerSDDRR-2BQ-3D-3D
Two new medical publications Read More »
How do you/we choose from all those who wish to serve us, whether restauranteurs, plumbers or doctors? How do we know which or who is good, or even excellent? Locally we can rely on our own experience and the recommendations of friends. But it is more difficult away from home. Some things like restaurants
Enhancing quality in GI health care Read More »
The current bizarre health care “discussions” in Washington prompt me to comment. I grew up with, and served in, the National Health Service in Britain. When initiated in 1947 it was relatively inexpensive, since medical care was much less complex and most people died soon after retirement, if not before. The funding did not keep up
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After the wonderful week in the game parks with family, Marion and I headed to CapeTown, where I was to be visiting professor at Groote Schuur hospital. We splurged by arriving on the famous Blue Train from Pretoria. 36 hours of pampering, with great (too much) food. The landscape was rather monotonous until the mountainous
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This one is medical, but I will try to make it intelligible. EPISOD stands for “Evaluating Predictors and Interventions in Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction”. That pesky sphincter described by Mr Oddi is the valve that controls the flow of juices from the liver and pancreas into the small intestine (duodenum). If it overacts it
Our EPISOD research project finishes after 9 years. Read More »
I went to visit Dick McCray this week. Sadly he is unwell. We met first in 1971 in New York. I was on my first trip to USA, traveling across west to east on my way back to England after spending 3 weeks in Japan looking at and learning a breakthrough technique that became known
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