Can a patient who has not mentioned a symptom in a clinical note for over a year or so be considered an accident victim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Chabot v. Chaube, 2014 BCSC 300 (CanLII):
In Edmondson v. Payer, 2011 BCSC 118, Smith J. noted at para. 36 that the lack of mentioning a symptom in a clinical record cannot become the sole basis for inferences about the existence or non-existence of an injury. This applies to all clinical notes.
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