gastroenterology
- n the branch of medicine that studies the gastrointestinal tract and its diseases
- Lukash is a specialist in gastroenterology and internal medicine who had been serving as assistant physician to former President Nixon.
- Sherwin Nuland is a celebrity doctor; he was a surgeon for 30 years, teaches surgery and gastroenterology at Yale and is author of How We Die, which won a National Book Award.
- Franz Ingelfinger, 69, German-born physician whose work on digestive-tract physiology revolutionized gastroenterology, whose teaching at Boston University Medical School shaped a .