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We may be entering a whole new world of home videos if researchers from Indiana University Hospital in the United States have their way. If you were offered the chance to take home a video of your very own colonoscopy, would you? Would you go as far as to pay for one?
The researchers conducted a survey of patients who underwent colonoscopies to see if they would like a video and if they would be willing to pay for one. Currently, videos are done if a procedure is going to be used as a teaching tool, but otherwise, recording is not done. However, since the effectiveness of colonoscopies are one of the tests that depend on the skill of the practitioner, a number of suspicious lesions may be missed during the procedure if it is not recorded.
It turned out that a majority of the respondents said that they would like to have a video recording of their colonoscopy, but the survey didn’t say why they would want it, curiosity? For a second opinion? For future law suits? The researchers also found that it was younger patients who would be more willing to pay for a video recording. Patients who had already had colorectal cancer and/or a family history of colorectal cancer were among those most willing.
What do you think? Would you want a video?
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I have Crohns disease and I have had far more colonoscopies then I would like to remember. I have to say honestly I would not even consider wanting a video of this procedure. Now I would haveloved one of my children’s birth. :)