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Refusing medical treatment: Evidencing unreasonableness
Helena Drage considers what issues of mitigation arise when a claimant refuses a recommended course of treatment ‘When considering whether a claimant has acted reasonably or unreasonably in refusing treatment, the risk profile of the recommended intervention is likely to be balanced against what the medical evidence demonstrates to be the likely benefit conferred by …