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Petitioner sustained an industrial injury, consisting of dermatitis of the right hand. On March 31, 1965, the Industrial Accident Commission, the predecessor of respondent board, issued its award which included further medical treatment necessary to cure or relieve from the effects of the injury. The employer, respondent Standard Oil Company of California, then authorized treatment by Dr. Ailing-ton, but petitioner objected to Dr. Allington on the ground of the distance from his home to the doctor’s office. Standard then designated a panel of three physicians for petitioner’s consideration, and he chose Dr. ICanzel, who rendered treatment from May 4, 1965, to July 20, 1965. In October of 1965, petitioner’s condition “flared up” again, but Dr. Kanzel, on the ground that the then present condition was not due to the industrial injury, refused to treat petitioner except on a private patient basis.

Petitioner then went for treatment to Dr. Lininger. He stopped seeing her because he was unable to pay her bills and sought reimbursement for the self-procured medical treatment. On March 30, 1966, he received an award reimbursing him for the self-procured medical treatment based on the…