Michael Kirsch, MD, practices gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The views expressed in this essay are entirely his own. Readers are invited to his weekly medical commentary at mkirsch.substack.com. In his tenure as a GI physician, he's performed over 40,000 colonoscopies, quite a legacy! He enjoys reading, thinking, and writing. He is a 2026–2027 Doximity Op-Med Fellow.