In 2000 an inquiry into cervical screening in the Gisborne area was held after it was discovered that a local laboratory had failed to pick up hundreds of abnormal smears. Dr Michael Botrill, who ‘read’ the smears and owned the laboratory, is shown here giving evidence at the inquiry. His laboratory found 0.53 high grade abnormalities compared with a national average of 1%. Once Dr Botrill retired, the rate of high grade abnormalities found jumped to 1.71%. In his evidence, Dr Botrill accepted that he had misread smears.
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Photograph by Nicola Topping
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