Medical attendance.
Section 13
SEC. 13. Medical attendance.—Immediately after an employee has suffered an injury and during the subsequent period of disability, the employer shall provide the employee with such medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies as the nature of the injury may require. The pecuniary liability of the employer for the necessary medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies shall be limited to the amount ordinarily paid in the community for such treatment of an injured person of the same standard of living if the treatment had to be paid for by the injured person himself. In case the employer cannot furnish medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies promptly, the injured employee may acquire the same at the expense of the employer. If, in case of litigation, it is shown before a competent court that the injured employee voluntarily refused to accept the services of a competent physician or surgeon or voluntarily rejected the medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies provided by the employer, or voluntarily obstructed the physician or surgeon or the medical,surgical or hospital services, such refusal on the part ofthe employee shall be construed as a waiver of all or partof his rights to the medical, surgical, and hospital servicespaid for by the employer, and in this case the employershall be liable only for the injury or for the disability ofany nature that would have ensued if the injured man hadaccepted the medical, surgical, and hospital services andsupplies tendered by the employer: Provided, however, That the refusal as well as the kind of disability that would havebeen the result of the injury if the injured person hadaccepted such services, shall be set forth in an affidavitmade within twenty-four hours after the accident by thephysician called to attend to the injured person.