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The medical specialty where every career is, unavoidably, a deep dive into the gut.
means The branch of medicine dealing with the stomach, intestines, and all the organs involved in digestion.
from Built from Greek parts: 'gaster' (stomach), 'enteron' (intestine), and 'logia' (study of) — the same '-logy' suffix that turns any subject into a formal science. The word is a 19th-century medical coinage, stacking Greek roots the way doctors like to, to make something as unglamorous as digestion sound properly scholarly.
- scope
- Covers esophagus to colon, mouth to exit
- top procedure
- Colonoscopy, the ultimate deadline reminder
- funny bone
- Doctors who genuinely love talking about poop
- stat surprise
- The gut has more neurons than the spinal cord