Sunday House Call, #696, June 2, 2019: All the medical news that is fit to print is rife with perception bias

Topics today include:

The media’s reporting of medical stories are still using the 7+ charged words that should not be part of any medical news story.

Your health care dollars being wasted on bureaucracy to oversee the new colon cancer screening FIT test.

What is your awareness of the common causes of death in the US and Canada and how is this reflected in the media? Our World in Data has a telling chart.

Your calls about:

• NSAID use
• Bone cancer treatments
• knee replacement surgery