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Harry Smith Colonoscopy to Air Live
CBS News ^ | March 8, 1010 | CBS News

Posted on 03/08/2010 2:01:51 PM PST by libstripper

"Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith is scheduled to have a colonoscopy Wednesday - and the show plans live reports as he undergoes the procedure. Viewers will also learn what Smith had to do to prepare for it.

"CBS Evening News" anchor and Managing Editor Katie Couric plans to be With Smith as he gets ready for and has the colonoscopy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

The procedure will be performed by Dr. Mark Pochapin.

It will be the first time an anchor has had a colonoscopy live on network television.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: reagan_fanatic
It's a double procedure. You get a dynamite pill to dislodge whatever's in your gut and a two quart bottle with dry chemical to mix with water and drink for about 2 hours; that's the flush. First, you take the pill and wait for the time bomb to go off, which it WILL. Then you start drinking the chemical flushing solution that's designed to be incapable of intestinal absorption and, therfore, to rush through your gut like a flash flood. From the moment you take the dyanmite pill until about four hours later you should be very close to a toilet; you'll badly need to be. The procdedure itself is an anitclimax, since you'll be unconscious through most of it. Having gone through two of these, I am describing my own direct, personal experiences and would be legally competent to testify in court about them.
61 posted on 03/09/2010 6:39:18 AM PST by libstripper
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My early morning talkradio show guy covered it, Ray Donaway of WTIC AM, Hartford, CT, saying he is due again.


62 posted on 03/10/2010 3:58:29 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: rahbert

As I had said, I may do a natural colon cleanse in order to get ready.


63 posted on 03/10/2010 4:02:58 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: libstripper

remember to stay out of the slash zone...


64 posted on 03/10/2010 11:49:06 AM PST by rahbert
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