On Jan. 11, 2021, The New York Times posted an article about the virtues of fecal immunochemical testing relative to colonoscopy. The story, “A Colonoscopy Alternative Comes Home” [https://www.nytimes.com/ 2021/ 01/ 11/ health/ colonoscopy-health-home-testing.html] depicted colonoscopy as a comparatively risky procedure with few advantages over less invasive methods of testing for colorectal cancer. It also offered the speculation that financial factors— namely, greater
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