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This Appendix is for workers with entitlement for emotional problems,
psychological problems or brain damage, or who suffer from depression,
chronic pain disability, fibrositis or fibromyalgia syndrome.
Your medical assessment should look at four
different areas of your life:
- Activities of Daily Living
- Social Functioning
- Concentration
- Adaptation (to your condition)
The NEL doctor who assesses you will rate you
on a scale from "mild" to "extreme"
impairment.
Part of the package sent to the doctor by WSIB
is an activities of daily living form. Look for this form
in the assessment report. If it is not there, you should object
and ask to be reassessed in this category. If it is there, look
at it very carefully to make sure that it contains all the information
regarding how your condition has changed your life. If you think
important information is missing, you should try to convince the
Adjudicator that evidence is missing. It is best for you or your
doctor to write WSIB a letter specifying what important information
you think is missing.
Your Adjudicator must look not only at the
assessment report, but also at other evidence. This could include:
- a medical report or letter from your doctor
or specialist,
- letters from family and friends who can
say how your impairment is affecting you in your daily life, or
- your own letter about your condition.
If you are going to ask your doctor to
write a report, take along the assessment report with the "Note
to Doctor" in Appendix
5.
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