Legal Question in Workers Comp in Michigan

back injury

I injured my back in 04 made a full recovery injured my back again in dec 06 on the job job admitted to on site injury refused medical attention injury flared up two months later and put me in emergency i then filed for workers comp i was put on medical leave and bombarded with a multitude of tests and therapy from many doctors all of which are in full agreement with the prognosis but the employer refuses to pay comp in june 07 comp doctor realeased me back to work with no restictions with out an examination i explained to both the doc and the job that i felt i was not ready i went back to work and reinjured myself my lawyer says my 04 injury basically ends my case and the new injury is not worth fighting because they can claim it was staged even though there were witnesses it was brought to my att. that the lawyer and the comp doc have a mutual friendship i asked the lawyer if this was true and he admitted to it stateing that he is a respectable doc i feel the lawyer is not representing me to the best of his abillity and now claims that i would be lucky to break even after the lawyer fees have been paid i'm at wits end i do not know what else to do i would be so greatfull if you could please advise me what to do

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