Ernest FRANKENFIELD, Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee

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• holding that rejection of medically credited symptomology based solely on the ALJ’s observation of claimant at hearing and claimant’s testimony that he took care of his personal needs, performed limited household chores, and occasionally went to church, is not permissible
• finding that the Secretary could not reject medical determinations “simply by having the administrative law judge make a different medical judgment.”
• observing that the ALJ referred to clinical tests to support its conclusion, but did not address the symptoms that the treating physicians credited
• finding that ALJ improperly rejected reports of “three treating physicians [who] determined that he is disabled” based on claimant’s testimony he “took care of his personal needs, performed limited household chores, and occasionally went to church”
• reversing summary judgment against the claimant and remanding case where he “took care of his personal needs, performed limited household chores, and occasionally went to church”
• “�e Secretary cannot reject [the treating sources’] medical determinations simply by having the administrative law judge make a different medical judgment.”

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