Barbieri v. EM YOUNG COMPANY

This is an employee’s petition under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, article II, §5, as amended, to recover medical expenses in addition to the maxima therein specified. From an adverse decision by the director of labor the petitioner appealed to the superior court where, after a hearing de novo, a decree was entered denying and dismissing the petition. The case is before us on the employee’s appeal from that decree.

The only medical evidence in the case came from petitioner’s personal physician who, disclaiming special knowledge of neurology and psychiatry,…