Billie S. Hancock v. Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare

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• consulting physician’s report is given little weight when treating physician reaches conclusion directly contrary
• “[T]he report of a consulting physician who examined the claimant once does not constitute ‘substantial evidence’ upon the record as a whole, especially when contradicted by the evaluation of the claimant’s treating physician.”

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