Dr. Anthony Arauz discusses his work in the Radiology Deparment at GGC
Watch to see Dr. Anthony Arauz, M.D. discuss the importance of CT scans for detecting cancers early. He also explains the climate of lung cancer in Kentucky and how he is passionate to help those who are affected.
Graves Gilbert Clinic is a multispecialty clinic located in Bowling Green, Kentucky housing more than 125 physicians, 50 physician assistants and nurse practitioners who continue to lead the way in medical innovation and technology and serve South Central Kentucky with the same level of care and dedication that their founding fathers promised over 80 years ago when Dr. Graves and Dr. Gilbert shook hands and made a commitment to the future: A commitment to a Lifetime of Care. Learn more at
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Serving and working here in Bowling Green has been a great experience. The big difference is in coming from a bigger city is the sense of community here and I really enjoy knowing a lot of the consulting physicians and the physicians here at the clinic and serving the smaller community and knowing a lot of the patients. CT scan, a low dose CT scan, or a screening CT of the chest is a screening modality that we use for detection of lung cancer. It's a screening modality, which means that patients are asymptomatic and we're able to detect and hopefully detect the cancer or the problem earlier and get a diagnosis earlier. So the importance of the low dose CT is ultimately giving patients a better chance.Detecting the cancers earlier. Lung cancer, unfortunately, is the leading cause of cancer deaths both in the U.S. and worldwide and unfortunately for Kentucky, we are the state leading that so we know our patients are high-risk, there's a high incidence of smoking in the state and there's a lot of people who would qualify for this type of an exam so we want to encourage people not to be scared to get the exam done. It's a screening exam, it's very quick, it's very easy and ultimately it could make a big difference in their care and in their life. Basically you call the Radiology department, you schedule the examination, you don't eat or drink for several hours before the CT scan. The actual appointment is fairly easy. There's no IV that needs to be started, no blood drawn. The actual exam takes a matter of 5-10 seconds to scan so patients that have difficulty holding their breath or have had a hard experience in an MRI scan before; it's nothing like that. It's very quick, a matter of seconds to actually be scanned. Putting my heart into what I do every day I think you have to enjoy what you do,first and foremost. You have to be happy in what you do every day and I couldn't imagine doing anything else, I couldn't imagine doing anything else in medicine. Ilove what I do. Every time I pull up a case in a different patient, that's my chance to make a difference. Every case, every patient, warrants the best of my ability and I try to do that for everyone that comes across our department.
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Dr. Anthony Arauz discusses his work in the Radiology Deparment at GGC
Watch to see Dr. Anthony Arauz, M.D. discuss the importance of CT scans for detecting cancers early. He also explains the climate of lung cancer in Kentucky and how he is passionate to help those who are affected.
Graves Gilbert Clinic is a multispecialty clinic located in Bowling Green, Kentucky housing more than 125 physicians, 50 physician assistants and nurse practitioners who continue to lead the way in medical innovation and technology and serve South Central Kentucky with the same level of care and dedication that their founding fathers promised over 80 years ago when Dr. Graves and Dr. Gilbert shook hands and made a commitment to the future: A commitment to a Lifetime of Care. Learn more at
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Serving and working here in Bowling Green has been a great experience. The big difference is in coming from a bigger city is the sense of community here and I really enjoy knowing a lot of the consulting physicians and the physicians here at the clinic and serving the smaller community and knowing a lot of the patients. CT scan, a low dose CT scan, or a screening CT of the chest is a screening modality that we use for detection of lung cancer. It's a screening modality, which means that patients are asymptomatic and we're able to detect and hopefully detect the cancer or the problem earlier and get a diagnosis earlier. So the importance of the low dose CT is ultimately giving patients a better chance.Detecting the cancers earlier. Lung cancer, unfortunately, is the leading cause of cancer deaths both in the U.S. and worldwide and unfortunately for Kentucky, we are the state leading that so we know our patients are high-risk, there's a high incidence of smoking in the state and there's a lot of people who would qualify for this type of an exam so we want to encourage people not to be scared to get the exam done. It's a screening exam, it's very quick, it's very easy and ultimately it could make a big difference in their care and in their life. Basically you call the Radiology department, you schedule the examination, you don't eat or drink for several hours before the CT scan. The actual appointment is fairly easy. There's no IV that needs to be started, no blood drawn. The actual exam takes a matter of 5-10 seconds to scan so patients that have difficulty holding their breath or have had a hard experience in an MRI scan before; it's nothing like that. It's very quick, a matter of seconds to actually be scanned. Putting my heart into what I do every day I think you have to enjoy what you do,first and foremost. You have to be happy in what you do every day and I couldn't imagine doing anything else, I couldn't imagine doing anything else in medicine. Ilove what I do. Every time I pull up a case in a different patient, that's my chance to make a difference. Every case, every patient, warrants the best of my ability and I try to do that for everyone that comes across our department.
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