Bruce A. Perler, MD, MBA, a practicing vascular surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Julius H. Jacobson II, MD, Endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, both in Baltimore. Dr. Perler is author of nearly 200 peer-reviewed medical journal articles and textbook chapters and has edited several textbooks, including Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy.
Feeling perfectly healthy? Chances are, your doctor still orders certain tests—called “screening tests”—that check for conditions such as colon cancer…
