What is the test for determining whether a medical form is "informative" to a patient?

Alberta, Canada


The following excerpt is from Dickson v. Pinder, 2010 ABQB 269 (CanLII):

This principle also applies to documents. The court must also look at the form itself to determine whether it is accurate and whether it provides the patient with enough information. In other words, the court must find whether the form itself “informs” the patient or whether it provides merely an outline on which the medical practitioner must build, see e.g. Philion v. Smith, 2008 CarswellOnt 5090, 61 C.C.L.T. (3d) 113 (Sup. Ct. J.).

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