I don't know about that, but a friend of mine is an ER doc and sick of dealing with drunks every Friday and Saturday night, so she's publically instituted a new policy: anyone brought in under the influence of alcohol gets a colonoscopy. Well, bowel disease is a problem in chronic alcoholics...
Do what you love. And some people love rootin' around other people's tailpipes, I suppose.
I'm pretty sure the doctors don't think of it as a trip up someone's ass, but as a procedure they can do using cool technology, which can save people's lives. A lot of them really love playing with their toys.
Oh, you're no fun any more. I'm sure it's just awkward phrasing, but the "doctors like colonoscopies" is presented as a reason that they'll be sad about having to change to saving people's lives with even cooler technology -- it really looks like a claim that they actively enjoy shoving cameras up people's asses.
Gastroenterologists like doing colonoscopies because it helps them conjure up fond childhood memories.
A lot of them really love playing with their toys.
ATM.
Give 'em a break. They prefer taking decisive action that demonstrably saves peoples' lives, over endlessly counselling people whom they really can't help much [e,g., irritable-bowel victims]. Is that so hard to understand?
it helps them conjure up fond childhood memories
Come on, LB. If you could spend your days running robots up your clients' asses, would you hesitate for even a moment?
Doctors and lawyers like cats and dogs.
That may explain why I can't seem to get my big sister on the phone lately.
9: God, that's pretty much a BOFH's dream.
"Hi, I've forgotten my password again and would like to change it."
"We now have a policy that anyone who asks for a password change more than once a month must first submit to a colonoscopy. Bend over."
"Uh, I think I might have it written on a Post-it in my desk somewhere. I'll go look again."