Court: Doctor Rightly Focused on Recovery

A nurse's aide lost in her bid to have an examining physician's testimony impeached for saying he couldn't find any evidence of a herniated disk two weeks after the injury. The Pennysylvania Commonwealth Court issued an unreported opinion in Seltzer v. Worker's Compensation Appeal Board, No. 358 C.D. 2006 (8/2/06), rejecting Dorothy Seltzer's contention that the physician for her employer was incompetent. Seltzer worked as a nurse's aide for the Diocese of Erie/John XXIII and had a work-related back injury in mid-July 2000. She received workers' compensation benefits under an Agreement for...