title: Endoscopy: Have we gastroenterologists lessened our value through the perception of us as professional proceduralists?
abstract: This is a commentary on the recently published meta-analysis by Wilkins et al which concluded that primary care physicians are able to provide comparable quality in performing colonoscopic colon cancer screening as gastroenterologists.
authors.affiliation: Sherman M Chamberlain, Section of Gastroenterology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, United States.
authors.forename: Sherman M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Chamberlain