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In the slick word of Western medicine, why hasn’t this horrible test been updated?

You’d have thought some brainiac would have invented an alternative to the colonoscopy by now.

In the slick word of Western medicine, why hasn’t this horrible test been updated?

We haven't written up this one. The Sydney Morning Herald has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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