Roshini Raj, MD, of Health magazine, discusses risks of common medical tests.
DR. ROSHINI RAJ
Roshini Raj, MD, a Health magazine contributor and part of the magazine’s Health Expert Network, is board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine with degrees from the New York University School of Medicine and Harvard University. Currently Dr. Raj is an attending physician at NYU Medical Center’s Tisch Hospital in New York City. She also serves as an assistant professor at the NYU School of Medicine, and she has a special interest in women’s health and cancer screening. She has also published several research articles on colon-cancer screening.
Dr. Raj has discussed health topics on numerous television outlets including NBC’s Today show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, FOX News, and Discovery Health. She has been quoted in publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and Fitness on the state of health care and other health news of the day. Dr. Raj is often called upon to explain and demystify complicated health topics.
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Dr. Raj made a beautiful point here. Ask your doctor why? Most doctors of today are in the mode of diagnosing, burning, cutting or poisoning the body to fix something. Many issues that develop over time are the result of poor diet due to stress, nutritional ignorance and emotional unhappiness. By gradually including nutrient dense foods of high quality into our body, these pesty little issues of disease seem to go away without tests and operations. Our dear Dr. Fuhrman always prefers to use food and nutrition before medicine and the knife. I respect him very much!
I have a doctor friend I know that wants me to consider getting a colonoscopy. I hope I spelled that right. I know of two people that ended up with perforated colons and terrible side effects. I guarantee that there are thousands that had problems with this problematic method of diagnosing and scraping of pollyps.
Dr. Raj appears to be a lady that is VERY conscious of her food nutrition and happiness. Thank you Dr. Raj!
art, a colonoscopy is life saving. simply eating right and dieting and emotional happiness will NOT prevent colon cancer. There are many genetic components to colon cancer. That is why a colonoscopy is usually started for screening at 50 and repeated every 10 years because that is the time it takes the polyp to turn cancerous.
As far as the side effects ..the rate of perforation and infection far does not outweigh the risk of early detection of polyps!!! the statistic is somewhere around .02 percent for perforation.
COLONOSCOPY is by far the best method to detect/biopsy colonic polyps.
Is Roshini of Indian descent?
I’ve just noticed this exquisite young woman on t.v. today, and while she seems quite accomplished, her all-consuming hotness is all I can focus on!
Roshini, I’d like to profess to you my undying infatuation with your visage!
Please, my sweet, shoot a series of photos and distribute them!