What is the test for determining whether a reasonable patient should have undergone the recommended treatment?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sandhu v. Gabri, 2014 BCSC 2283 (CanLII):
In Gregory v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2011 BCCA 144 at para. 56, the court further articulates that the test is a “subjective/objective test … [t]hat is whether the reasonable patient, having all the information at hand that the plaintiff possessed, ought reasonably to have undergone the recommended treatment.”
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