Is there 10% of a plaintiff who refused to initiate physiotherapy treatments that were recommended by their medical practitioners?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cyr v. Kopp, 2016 BCSC 679 (CanLII):
I am unable to conclude that the plaintiff is one of those 10% because he refused to initiate the physiotherapy treatments that were repeatedly recommended by his medical practitioners. This is a case of a patient thinking that he knows better than his health practitioners: Middleton v. Morcke, 2007 BCSC 804 at para. 49.
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