Getting knocked out during a colonoscopy might seem like a good idea. After all, being awake as your doctor uses a long, flexible tube to get an inside view of your lower intestines doesn't sound very ...

Lying there wide-awake as the doctor removed the colonoscopy tube from my hinder, I recalled that time in the 1980s when I had four impacted wisdom teeth gouged from my jaw while under nothing but a ...

Editor's Note: This article is made possible through a sponsored content partnership with New Hanover Regional Medical Center. A colonoscopy can help prevent colon cancer because a doctor will remove ...