{"id":51,"date":"2008-12-22T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gutcheck\/?p=51"},"modified":"2008-12-22T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:14:08","slug":"telling-the-truth-about-colonoscopy-take-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/telling-the-truth-about-colonoscopy-take-ii\/2008\/12\/22\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the Truth About Colonoscopy, Take II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/0000605-200901060-00306v1\">article in <em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a> neatly drives home the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gutcheck\/index.php\/2008\/12\/03\/are-we-telling-patients-the-truth-about-colonoscopy\/\">argument that I made below<\/a> about colonoscopies missing some cancers. Glad to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/16\/health\/16cancer.html\">in its coverage<\/a>, the <em>Times<\/em> at least correctly identified that the problem is with who does the procedure, not with the procedure itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in Annals of Internal Medicine neatly drives home the argument that I made below about colonoscopies missing some cancers. Glad to see that in its coverage, the Times at least correctly identified that the problem is with who does the procedure, not with the procedure itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}