Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Health care journalism, Screening
- And the followup – Search for civility, shared decision-making in screening/health care discussions - based on an almost incredible comment left by Jamie Bearse, the chief operating officer of Project Zero – The Project to End Prostate Cancer.
Overall, this was an easy-to-follow summary. But there was a clear difference between this and a competing Boston Globe story, which did a better job offering context and analysis.
This Boston Globe blog post gave its audience a more thorough understanding of an emerging approach to virtual colonoscopy than the Wall Street Journal.
Longer, but overall not any better, than the coverage from the competing LA Times story. Not thorough enough to explain what this preliminary research actually means for readers–which is not much at this point.
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