By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau

We’ve all gotten medical advice we didn’t follow.

Get more exercise? With what free time?

Eat less meat? No, thank you.

Eight hours of sleep a night? Lol, I’ll get right on that.

But sometimes you’re deemed too sick – too crazy – to ignore medical advice.

Tens of thousands of times a year, Ontarians are deemed too crazy to decide to leave hospital, too crazy to consent – or withhold consent – to treatment.

And thousands of times a year, they challenge those medical designations at the arms-length body that adjudicates such challenges – the Consent and Capacity Board.