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Patients were wandering around, even wearing their colostomy bags even from the hospital in one case.— CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2008
KING: ... and nobody had ever discussed colostomy.— CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2003
And one thing that they do sometimes -- excuse me, a little bit of throat congestion -- they actually sometimes will divert some of the intestine into a bag -- it's called a colostomy bag -- so that actually the intestine gets a chance to heal, the abdominal cavity gets a chance to heal while that suture line is fixing itself.— CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2007
O'NEILL: Well I had a colostomy.— CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2001
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