Is there any case law in which a plaintiff's complaint in a medical malpractice case has a psychological rather than physical explanation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ridge v. Perdue, 1995 CanLII 3010 (BC SC):
2. The problem of which this plaintiff complains "must be regarded as having a psychological rather than physical explanation" to use the language adopted in Maslen v. Rubenstein.
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