On Jan. 11, 2021, TheNew 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 reimbursement for endoscopy—was behind the general preference of gastroenterologists for colonoscopy over stool tests.
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