Goldthrite v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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• “An ALJ must rely on the medical findings contained within the record and cannot make his own diagnosis without substantial medical evidence to support his opinion.”
• “An ALJ must rely on the medical findings contained within the record and cannot make his own diagnosis without substantial medical evidence to support his opinion.”
• “An ALJ must rely on the medical findings contained within the record and cannot make his own diagnosis without substantial medical evidence to support his opinion.”
• “An ALJ must rely on the medical findings contained within the record and cannot make his own diagnosis without substantial medical evidence to support his opinion.”
• “To give [the consulting physician’s] one[-]time examination more weight than [the treating physician’s] opinions representing patient contact and treatment over an extensive period of time was clear error.”
• remanded where the ALJ rejected the treating physician’s opinion and gave “greater weight to a consultative exam... that gave no specific description of the Plaintiff's functional limitations other than ‘mild restriction.””

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).