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As we enter the new millennium a vast New World of technology emerges in every field of science. In the world of gastro-interology, the latest technology is a procedure called a colonoscopy. A colonoscopy is a procedure that enables a doctor to examine the lining of the colon for abnormalities by inserting a flexible tube that is about the thickness of your finger into the anus and advancing it slowly into the rectum and colon. To the gastro-interology field, the colonoscopy was a dream come true. It provided a 'window' into the uncharted territory of a live human stomach. Before the radical new invention, doctors could only hypothesize to what was ailing their