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Tammy Wilson
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 7:40 pm: | 
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I have had Type I diabetes for 32 years and a lot of other ailments that go along with the disease altho this is my main one. I am now at the reconsideration level of my claim. They have set me up for an appt with a psychologist and medical doctor (their own - they pay for it). Is this a good sign that they are leaning toward approving payments and do they take into account that I've had diabetes so long. I haven't worked for a couple years and cannot work because of the nature of this disease. I'm in Kansas Thanks |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 5:29 am: |
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Tammy, for some a consultative exam helps, but more often it causes problems. Some of the doctors who do these spend little time and are given no background medicals. Some see their job as to help the Administration deny you. One of the main things a good attorney does is to help you avoid these or give the doctor doing them the proper information.
The fact that a consultative exam is set is no sign that they are leaning toward allowing benefits. |
Joe Brown
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 7:33 am: |
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What are the (experiences)of the disability determation physicians used by the state? How can they justify mental disability with physical disabilty when you stated physical? |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 6:31 am: |
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The State Agency, who makes the recommendation to the Social Security Administration as to disability issues, uses two sorts of physicians. First is an in-house, non-examining doctor who looks at the medical records and makes a recommendation. Usually this doctor is an employee on a pretty short leash, who recommends what the Administration wants him to. But he or she cannot do much damage.
The second is a consultative doctor, who examines you and gives a report. These are often also on a pretty short leash, and can do a lot of damage. One of the main reasons to hire a lawyer is to avoid or minimize the damage they do, by avoiding them, brainwashing them, or neutralizing them with stronger medical evidence.
In fairness, some consultatives, particularly those in small towns, are just regular doctors who call it like they see it.
For reasons I do not understand, the State Agency likes to send people who have mainly physical problems to psychologists to have their psychological condition evaluated. |
sherry beauchamp
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 12:39 pm: |
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My husband suffered a head trama from a motorcycle accident he was in on June of 2003. He suffered with a basilar fracture and temperol fracture as well resulting in the permenant loss of hearing on the right side and some vision impairments on the right side as well. He has been self employeed and now is unable to do all of the tasks given for his type of jobs he does. SSD needs more info and is sending him for an examination with a "I believe psychologist" MA and I was wondering what types of tests they will be performing? Thanks for your possible support. Do all states have different regulations? Were from michigan. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 9:55 pm: |
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It might vary over the country, but in my experience a psychologist who is a consultative examiner for the Administration is allowed to perfom either a "mental status evauation," which is a brief conference with the client, or else an WAIS-III IQ test and perhaps related tests. Some of these tests tend to pick up the sort of organic brain damage that your husband might have. |
Barbara Quinton (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 12:46 pm: |
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I have neuropathy and herniated discs and have filed SSD, I was sent for a CE and that doctor didn't agree with my doctor, was sent to another CE and my case was sent to the doctors in SS office, now my case is in decesion writing. My doctor got the report from first CE and said that doctor didn't hear a word I said. Is it normal to send to a second CE. I was told by examiner that there was a discrepincy between doctors that is why I was sent to second CE. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Post Number: 1078
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 7:55 pm: |
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I have never been able to figure out why the Adminstration sometimes sends you to a second doctor of the same sort. It is not always when the first doctor helps, or hurts. It is often when a lot of time has passed. |
Trennia (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 8:11 pm: |
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I had a hemorrhagic stroke back in July 2005 and I an 41 years old and I applied for disability upon my doctors advices I have not been denied but now I am told I have to now go to see one of their doctor who don't know me or my condition I have not hired a lawyer because i have not been denied yet. i am not sure what they could be looking for but having me to go to one of their doctor verses my three speciality doctor do they need someone to say i am not disabliltiy even though my stroke left me having a serizure disorder. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Post Number: 1084
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 4:47 pm: |
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If there is an unanswered medical question, the regulations say that they are supposed to use your doctor if he is available. But by one excuse and another, they generally use their own small stable of doctors. Many of their doctors create reports that make success difficult in most cases in which they are involved; some tend to be helpful, and some are in the middle. Most can be influenced by other medicals that can be submitted to them. Sometimes you can get them to use your doctor or another one instead. Sometimes that would be a bad idea.
Which of these posiblities apply in your case? The only way to find out is to give an attorney or other practicioner who works in your geographic area the name of the doctor and your medical records, and ask him or her. |
Henry G. (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 11:48 pm: |
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Section 616.2 of the SSA Handbook explicitly states: "Your treating source will be the preferred source to perform the consultative examination.
I just wonder why the SSA/DDS can get away with routinely violating this regulation, and why Congress has not done anything about this. Haven't people filed complaints against the DDS and complaint to their Congresspeople? |
