Could Be

[sbrewer]

If you have two different drs. put in your records that xxxxxx "Could Be" caused from your service connected illness, how would the term "could be" be considered?

thanks,

sbrewer

[Josephine]

If you have two different drs. put in your records that xxxxxx "Could Be" caused from your service connected illness, how would the term "could be" be considered?

thanks,

sbrewer

skewer,

It sounds like, well it could be or it may not be. A bit like mine saying it appears.

Sorry that I could not be of more help.

Josephine

[rdawg]

do a search on "speculation" at the BVA web site.

I found this

Service connection may not be based on a resort to

speculation. See 38 C.F.R. § 3.102 (2005).

(Bloom v. West, 12 Vet.

App. 185, 186-87 (1999) (treating physician's opinion that

veteran's time as a prisoner of war "could" have

precipitated the initial development of his lung condition

found too speculative to provide medical nexus evidence to

well ground cause of death claim);

[Josephine]

do a search on "speculation" at the BVA web site.

I found this

Service connection may not be based on a resort to

speculation. See 38 C.F.R. § 3.102 (2005).

(Bloom v. West, 12 Vet.

App. 185, 186-87 (1999) (treating physician's opinion that

veteran's time as a prisoner of war "could" have

precipitated the initial development of his lung condition

found too speculative to provide medical nexus evidence to

well ground cause of death claim);

rdawg,

Thanks, maybe that psychiatrist can not get by with saying, " it appears that I did not acquire a psychiatric disorder in service."

Josephine

[rdawg]

The code doesn't say that service connection cannot be denied on speculation.

[Josephine]

The code doesn't say that service connection cannot be denied on speculation.

That is certainly true!

Have a good one!

Josephine