Dosh v. TRW/REDA Pump

*1284MEMORANDUM OPINION

KAUGER, Judge.

The dispositive issue presented is whether pursuant to 85 O.S.1985 § 3(H),1 in evaluating employment-related disability, a physician may deviate from the standards established by the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides/Guides).2 In accordance with our pronouncement in Branstetter v. TRW/REDA Pump, 809 P.2d 1305 (Okla.1991), we find that 85 O.S.Supp.1985 § 3(11) allows deviation from the AMA Guides only as the Guides expressly provide. Because the instant cause arose be*1285fore the issuance of mandate in Gaines…