A 45-year-old woman referred for an independent medical evaluation by her insurer.

CMAJ

Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (Busse), Department of Anesthesia (Busse, Ebrahim) and Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Busse, Ebrahim), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Faculty of Medicine (Bruun-Meyer), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine (Ebrahim), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Swiss Academy of Insurance Medicine, University Hospital Basel (Kunz), Basel, Switzerland.

Published: November 2014

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