Doctors can be mean when it comes to helping their patients prove that they are disabled. Some doctors are unwilling to "get involved" in the disability adjudication process at all. Most doctors will provide medical records, a bare minimum necessity. However, medical records alone are not enough to prove disability because they don't address any functional limitation. My firm will usually ask the client's doctor to provide a professional opinion about functional limitations, using such forms as HA-1151-bk. If the doctor will complete this form it is often an enormous help in proving the disability claim. We never ask a doctor to state that the patient is disabled. That decision is reserved to the Commissioner of Social Security. We do ask the doctor for certain medical opinions based on treatment history, examinations, imaging studies, laboratory reports, prognosis, etc. What can you do if your doctor will not complete any paperwork for yo...
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