New York Times piece on colonoscopies

[Marge]

Jane Brody, the New York Times columnist who writes the "Your Personal Health" column in "Science Times" has a piece on colonoscopies in the July 12 issue. It's a good article except toward the end she says simply that persons undergoing colonoscopies must "... stop taking medications that can cause bleeding a week before."

Which is fine if you are just talking about taking a tylenol instead of aspirin if you get a headache, but NOT fine if you are talking about coumadin/warfarin. I wrote an email to Ms. Brody (whose columns I generally find very informative) asking her to consider this issue in future columns. I'll post again if I get any response from her.

Here's the URL for the colonoscopy column, if anybody's interested in reading it: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/health/12brod.html?

 

[Ross]

Download the .PDF file I have in this thread, it's the forth post down.

http://www.valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11619

And send it to her. It is the guidelines for gastroentrologists on Coumadin and bridge therapy. She needs to be corrected before someone gets killed.

 

[Guest]

I she the same ... who wrote that warfarin lessens the viscosity of the blood?

The world would probably be a safer place without ... writing columns about warfarin.