Alvin Newman, MD, is an adjunct professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology at the University of Toronto Department of Medicine and an attending physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He also is the author of The Essential IBS Book: Understanding and Managing Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Functional Dyspepsia (Robert Rose).
When you sit on the toilet and do a #2, do you take a quick peek before flushing? I suspect…