
Yousef Fazel
@youseffazelmd
GI fellow at NYU Langone Long Island | University at Buffalo Internal Medicine Chief Resident |
VCU School of Medicine | Views are my own
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23-09-2017 20:04:56
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I gave a talk on inpatient bowel regimens today for the Yale School of Medicine Yale Internal Medicine residents and students, with additional 💎s on outpatient #constipation. Here are the slides! 💩 💩 💩 #MedTwitter #GITwitter #motility #MedEd Yale Internal Medicine Chiefs Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology & Hepatology





Learned and tried this elegant technique for PEG ostomy site closure published by Allison Schulman MD, MPH giejournal.org/article/S0016-… Such a simple and easy to do technique that doesn't require advanced training. Was very satisfying to see the end result.





🚨#GITwitter🚨 Think of every EGD, surveillance & diagnostic colon you do in one day. Now think of doing a prior auth for each of those. A poorly designed #priorauth pgm by #UnitedHealthcare will delay GI care & add red tape for us. UnitedHealthcare don’t implement the pgm on June 1!


An excellent video demonstration by Andrew Elden MD one of our core faculty on setting up Minnesota tube as rescue tx for 🩸 varices #GITwitter any tricks or tips to share for our first years?

Big clots are still a big problem in modern endoscopy. Here is a method to turn a flexible/rigidizing overtube into a large suction attachment to evacuate clots rapidly from the stomach. #GITwitter Douglas G. Adler MD, FASGE, FACG, AGAF Rashmi Advani, MD, ABOM Tarun Rustagi Neil Sharma, M.D. FASGE, FACG, AGAF SAGES is in Tampa in 2026!



Congratulations to our graduating general GI fellows. It has been such a fun three years. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for this world. Today is just the beginnning! NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island NYU Langone Health

It's amazing how such a small Dieulafoy's lesion in the colon can cause so much bleeding. Pitt Division of GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Pitt General Internal Medicine
