Surely, a colonoscopy should have been ordered – but does the patient bear some responsibility?
But, the doctors successfully argued that Boyd bore some responsibility for her treatment and diagnosis because she was a medical professional who could have known her symptoms were cancer indicators. Boyd also had a family history of colon polyps (her father had several removed almost a decade earlier), and she never completed a take-home test in 2001 that could have indicated additional colon problems.
