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This is what I think about provider endorsement and we learned this very acutely in the ACES study. With the ACES study, we said �We�re going try to encourage screening flexible sigmoidoscopy or endoscopic screening - colonoscopy or flex sig, we didn�t care which � to a population.� In this case, Aliquippa. And we tried to create this sigmoidoscopy service and get providers on board, but we really didn�t succeed. Partly there were a lot of political issues with UPMC Aliquippa and the home-ship. You can�t imagine the kinds of things that we encountered. But �build it and they will come� is not the way it�s going to work. People do what their doctor tells them to do. If you try to be an external force, try to get people to do something, it�s very difficult. Altering physician behavior is very, very difficult and studies have been done. In a lot of them, it looks like they�ve accomplished something and then six months later the doctors are doing what they did before.