Navigation for News Categories First published on By Molly Houseman Cancer patients are suffering because of Southern District Health Board's "pathetic" failure to fix its colonoscopy service and the Minister of Health needs to intervene, a top surgeon says. Christchurch general surgeon Phil Bagshaw made the comments after a review, released yesterday, came to many of the same conclusions about dysfunction within the DHB's gastroenterology department as a review he co-authored 18-months ago.