Texas Two-Steps Around the AMA Guides Sixth: Still Dancing with the Fourth Edition

If medical science has evolved, someone forgot to tell the Texas Labor Code. Although the Lone Star State is considering adoption of the newly released AMA Guides Sixth, it’s still flipping through the well-worn AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 4th Edition (1993)—and it shows, y’all.

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