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This unique book provides the reader with access to a two-year series of questions about aspects of colorectal disease, sprinkled with discussions of surgical philosophy, statistics and learned advice. It is based on questions asked of residents on their colorectal rotation in the general surgery program at Columbia University Medical College. More than 100 questions are followed by responses by Dr. Church, deliberately formulated to fill gaps in the usual treatment of the topics as covered in surgical textbooks and the literature.
Many issues that occur in the care of patients with colorectal disease are covered poorly or not at all in the available literature or even in the current training programs. The series of questions upon which this book is based is an intensely practical resource, and many of the answers feature Dr. Church s wisdom gathered from his personal practice at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition, the answers to the questions are written in such a way as to optimize learning, including references, ancillary information and glossaries where necessary. Key features include a common clinical question, hypothesis or situation; a way to manage or understand the question, hypothesis or situation; and a detailed background to the response so that the reader can understand.
List of contents
Part I. Clinical Assessment.- Part II. Anatomy and Physiology.- Part III. Anorectal Diseases.- Part IV. Clinical Cases.- Part V. Colonoscopy.- Part VI. Colon and Rectal Cancer.- Part VII. Colon Polyps and Polypectomy.- Part VIII. Complications.- Part IX. Diverticulitis.- Part X. Functional Disorders of the Large Intestine.- Part XI. Hereditary Syndromes of Colorectal Neoplasia.- Part XII. Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- Part XIII. Molecular Genetics of Colorectal Neoplasia.- Part XIV. The Pelvic Floor.- Part XV. Stomas.- Part XVI. Sigmoid Volvulus.
About the author
James Church was born and raised in New Zealand, attending Medical School and having his surgical training in Auckland, and receiving a Fellowship diploma from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1981. In 1983 he and his family travelled to the Cleveland Clinic for a clinical fellowship in the department of Colorectal Surgery and in 1989 he joined the staff of the Department. While at Cleveland Dr Church held the Victor W. Fazio Chair of Colorectal Surgery, was Vice Chair of the department, Head of Research, Director of the Section of Endoscopy, and Director of the Weiss Center for Hereditary Colorectal Neoplasia. Dr Church left Cleveland in 2021 and is currently a Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
During his 32-year career Dr Church has been Chairman of the Leeds Castle Polyposis Group and the International Collaborative Group on HNPCC and founded the Collaborative Group of the Americas for Inherited Gastrointestinal Cancer. He was Co-Editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum for 10 years, Vice President of ASCRS and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland. He is a Fellow of the American Surgical Association, honorary Fellow of several national surgical and gastroenterological societies, sole author of 3 textbooks, editor of several, and author or co-author of over 445 peer-reviewed articles. A Chair in Colorectal Surgery and a Fellowship in Hereditary Colorectal Cancer both bear his name at the Cleveland Clinic.
Summary
This unique book provides the reader with access to a two-year series of questions about aspects of colorectal disease, sprinkled with discussions of surgical philosophy, statistics and learned advice. It is based on questions asked of residents on their colorectal rotation in the general surgery program at Columbia University Medical College. More than 100 questions are followed by responses by Dr. Church, deliberately formulated to fill gaps in the usual treatment of the topics as covered in surgical textbooks and the literature.
Many issues that occur in the care of patients with colorectal disease are covered poorly or not at all in the available literature or even in the current training programs. The series of questions upon which this book is based is an intensely practical resource, and many of the answers feature Dr. Church’s wisdom gathered from his personal practice at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition, the answers to the questions are written in such a way as to optimize learning, including references, ancillary information and glossaries where necessary. Key features include a common clinical question, hypothesis or situation; a way to manage or understand the question, hypothesis or situation; and a detailed background to the response so that the reader can understand.
