199. The first health professional who takes charge of a worker who has suffered an employment injury shall immediately provide the worker, on the form prescribed by the Commission, with a certificate containing the diagnosis and(1) where he expects the worker’s employment injury to consolidate within fourteen full days from the date he became unable to carry on his employment by reason of his injury, the foreseeable date when the injury will consolidate; or
(2) where he expects the worker’s employment injury to take more than fourteen full days after the date he became unable to carry on his employment by reason of his injury to consolidate, the foreseeable time the injury will take to consolidate.
If the worker is not in a position to choose the first health professional to take charge of him, he may, as soon as he is in a position to do so, choose another health professional who will have charge of him and who shall then, at the worker’s request, give him the certificate prescribed in the first paragraph.
1985, c. 6, s. 199; 2020, c. 62020, c. 6, s. 131.