While gastroenterologists, like many medical specialists, face daily frustrations, including low budgets, insufficient staffing and insurance fights, there are many perks to the job as well.
Gastroenterology offers an ever-changing environment that keeps physicians on their toes as new technologies emerge.
Gastroenterologist Linda Lee, MD, medical director of endoscopy at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Boston’s Harvard Medical School, told Becker’s that she could not imagine working in any other specialty.