Samples of a colon biopsy to be sent to a laboratory.
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A scathing article in the
New Zealand Medical Journal a fortnight ago accused the Ministry of Health of allowing the DHB into the national bowel screening programme before it was ready.
Its authors, Professor Brian Cox and Dr Phil Bagshaw, claimed lives had been lost or shortened as a result of Southern DHB being unable to meet the existing need for colonoscopies when it joined the programme in 2018.
They said patients on the programme got priority over those already suffering cancer symptoms.
The pair now want a public inquiry, similar to that of the Cartwright Inquiry in the late 1980s.
A lawyer who worked on the Cartwright Inquiry into medical experiments 30 years ago is astonished women face a fight again over consenting to invasive procedures.
Several women have given accounts of lack of consent to invasive surgeries where many extra medical staff were present, many of them students.
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Several women have given RNZ firsthand accounts of being in surgery with many extra medical staff or trainees present, or being rushed into procedures with little chance to say no. I attempted to sit up, to look around and see who else was in the room, but the nurse or anaesthesiologist, I m unsure who, pushed me back onto the bed, trying to put the mask onto my face, one woman told RNZ.