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Physician-technician
  1. I Beales1
  1. 1School of Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK; i.beales@uea.ac.uk

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I have every sympathy with Dr Neale’s opinion and feel he is entirely correct in worrying about the apparently overwhelming tendency for technological investigation and expertise instead of a more considered diagnostic and management approach (Gut 2003;52:770–1). I would also agree with his view of the aspirations of many gastroenterological specialist registrars, apparent from talking to many of them. He has highlighted the potential problems of such a technical dictum and not even mentioned what might happen when further advances in imaging obviate the need particularly for diagnostic colonoscopy.

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