Lindy you said in your previous post: " My hemorrhoids are severe. I should have seen a protologist. How can my gastro doc do a colonoscopy and address possible hemorrhoid surgery at the same time?? I'm worried. I feel large bumps around the area of the hemorrhoids. I mistrust many specialist doctors."

I'd like to address hemorrhoids. Being the unlucky owner of pretty severe hemorrhoids myself. Hemorrhoids are almost always associated with either a) difficult bowel movements; 2) repeated vaginally delivery childbirth - OR even one difficult vaginal delivery, let alone multiple deliveries over a woman's lifespan; 3) lifting too much weight too many times, without having Kegel's engaged during the lifting; 4) being overweight for long periods of a lifetime; 5) anal sex trauma; or 6) other trauma.

It appears from your post that your doctor said he would "take a look" when he did the scheduled colonoscopy. This means he would take photos with the scope, as all scopes have a camera, and since he had planned to be down there he was going to take photos and assess them; not perform surgery at that time.

Let me address specialists. Personally, I PREFER specialists. I also deplore SOME insurance companies who make us all jump through hoops just to GET to the point we CAN see a specialist for a very specific problem we, ourselves have discovered.

Example: I kept going to my "primary care gate keeper" at the VA for TWO years, referencing my neck sounding like a garbage disposal when I turn it and fits of excruciating pain associated with such grinding when I would try to turn my head, especially to the left. After the younger (50yo) primary care gate keeper physician kept telling me it was just "old age" and to expect such...I finally demanded an MRI of my cervical spine. He ordered an X-ray of my lumbar spine. That took six months to straighten out: he entered the wrong body part wrong. Then the X-ray finally got done THIS April. Then an MRI was ordered by this bozo: he ordered the wrong body part AGAIN: my lumbar spine INSTEAD of my cervical (neck) spine. I finally got MRI of my cervical spine and now am seeing a neurologist because my cervical spine is pretty much hosed....and I am going to have cervical spine surgery as my discs are bulging in THREE spaces pressing on my spine. And I even asked ONE second opinion "Nurse Practitioner" IF the MRI showed any spinal cord compression...and HE told me "No...". SO, I knew better, as I too can READ X-rays, so I went and got a THIRD opinion.

I ALWAYS get second or even third opinion on everything if I get even an inkling someone is not doing their job correctly or my intuition tells me something isn't logical.

I feel sorry for those not in the medical field as I have been since 1980: patients beware.

Note: By law Medicare must let you have one or two if you seek to do so. Your life and health depend on it.