A 75 year old woman complains of increasing constipation and has noted bright red blood in her stools recently. She notes that the caliber of her stools has decreased. A hematology consult states she has iron deficiency anemia. You should:
- provide iron supplements
- have the patient eat more red meat and spinach
- work the patient up for colonic carcinoma, which will probably be found on the left side
- perform a total colectomy for ulcerative colitis
- order a barium enema to rule out a colonic carcinoma, probably on the right side
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