Sanyo Mfg. Corp. v. Farrell

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission. In September 1983 the claimant sustained a compensable injury to her back and, after being treated by doctors selected by the employer, the claimant requested a change of physicians to one of her own choice. The employer agreed to this request and the commission entered an order dated March 22,1984, allowing a change to Dr. James Rodney Feild of Memphis, Tennessee.

After claimant had seen Dr. Feild on five or six occasions, he released her to go back to work. She testified that he did nothing for…