Audette KEMP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that an ALJ “can not interpose his own ‘medical expertise’ over that of a physician”
• noting it is fact finder’s responsibility to resolve genuine conflicts between opinion of treating physician and other contrary evidence
• “While the ALJ is authorized to make a final decision concerning disability, he cannot interpose his own ‘medical expertise’ over that of a physician . . . .”
• the ALJ may not make medical 15 findings “not supported by any medical evidence in the record, and thus [representing] the 16 personal medical opinion of the ALJ.”

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