Gisela JESURUM, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

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• explaining that substantial evidence “is less than a preponderance of the evidence but more than a mere scintilla” (citation omitted)
• explaining that substantial evidence “is less than a preponderance of the evidence but more than a mere scintilla” (citation omitted)
• noting that “a patient’s failure consistently to use prescribed pain medication may undermine the patient’s claims of debilitating pain” absent legitimate reasons not to do so
• defining substantial evidence as “such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
• claimant's trip to Rhode Island two years prior to hearing was a \sporadic and transitory activity that cannot be used to show an ability to engage in substantial gainful activity\
• claimant's trip to Rhode Island two years prior to hearing was a “sporadic and transitory activity that cannot be used to show an ability to engage in substantial gainful activity”

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