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.
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Compare this post by Kevin with the one above and you’ll see why we don’t need “health courts” with doctors judging doctors. Based on the same amount of info, or lack thereof, according to Kevin it’s clearly the patient’s fault when the jury finds for the doc, and they are “out of control” when they don’t.
The fox in charge of the henhouse is never a good thing.
Anon 2:21 put down the Koolaid – it causes brain damage – she was a NURSE PRACTITIONER and could have done her FOB test in 2001 . She had a family history and she KNEW she had Ca – I have seen patients like this who are too afraid to get the diagnosis they fear. She was the vixen in the henhouse , who didn’t see the wolf in sheeps clothing descend on the fold or discern the wood from the trees – enough idiotic analogies for you? Try reading the actual article!
Thanks for again making my point. Even if it was unwittingly.
Koolaid – bad for brain , bad , bad , bad for brain
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