Corkie R. Robinson v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services

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• appellate court must affirm if it is possible to draw two inconsistent positions from evidence and one of those positions represents agency’s findings
• subjective complaints of pain may be discounted if there are inconsistencies in the evidence as a whole
• because ALJ explicitly discredited subjective complaints of pain, ALJ properly refused to supplement Guidelines with vocational expert testimony
• person would need to stoop only occasionally to perform substantially all sedentary and light jobs
• “[A]n arguable deficiency in opinion-writing technique does not require [the Court] to set aside an administrative finding when that deficiency had no bearing on the outcome.” (quotation omitted)
• conservative treatment of physical therapy, muscle relaxants, over-the-counter pain medications, and heat was inconsistent with disabling pain, especially when record demonstrated claimant did not always take pain medications

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