Column | Nervous about using the bathroom at work? A gastroenterologist shares advice.

Column | Nervous about using the bathroom at work? A gastroenterologist shares advice.

If you have to go, just go. Holding in your poop can put you at risk of hemorrhoids.

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By DataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS) – https://doi.org/10.7875/togopic.2020.154, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89430513 I’m a second-generation gastroenterologist. In my world, no bathroom topic is off-limits. Growing up, my father, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic, spoke so excitedly to me about the awe-inspiring ways our guts work. I always knew there was no more thrilling a career out there for me (y…