The Board has determined that the Veteran's emergency medical treatment was for a condition of such severity (acute abdominal pain and pancreatitis) that delay in seeking immediate medical attention could have been hazardous to health. The nearest VA facility, over 50 miles away, would not have been considered reasonable by a prudent layperson.
The deciding factor: A prudent person who possesses average knowledge could reasonably expect serious medical consequences from delaying treatment for abdominal pains that had persisted for days but then sharply increased in severity.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute abdominal pain, Pancreatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2010
- Citation
- 1018074
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