Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A procedure that is uncomfortable, but can be life-saving, is a colonoscopy, but it's not everyday doctors manage to find an insect inside someone's colon.

A man with a family history of bowel cancer was admitted to Dunedin Hospital four times with rectal bleeding but despite meeting the criteria for an urgent colonoscopy he waited almost 13 weeks, ...

A man died at Nelson Hospital after a surgeon performed a colonoscopy without realising he only had one lung. The Health and Disability Commissioner has released its findings into the man's death in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors found a fly in the colon of a 63-year-old man during a routine colonoscopy. They suspect the fly was swallowed, and were ...

A man forced to wait 12 weeks for a colonoscopy despite having rectal bleeding was then told he had just months left to live. The man, who is in his 70s, had a family history of colon cancer and made ...

A fly found in a man's colon during a colonoscopy caused a buzz amongst his gastroenterologists. This past summer, a 63-year-old unnamed man went in for a routine colonoscopy. As a doctor fished a ...