Ample evidence justified the trial court's mitigation charge instructing the jury to consider whether a reasonably prudent person in plaintiff's position would have undergone a myelogram. Plaintiff's own treating physician, an orthopedist, repeatedly recommended a myelogram, which he termed a more "definitive test" necessary to make a proper diagnosis and decision whether surgery was indicated, and testified that if surgery were indicated, plaintiff would have been better...
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