Johnson v. Astrue

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• holding that ALJ erred in part because she accepted the claimant’s diagnosis but rejected the existence of its primary symptoms based on lack of “objective evidence” when condition was one for which medical tests typically return normal
• holding that 20 ALJ erred in part because she accepted the claimant’s diagnosis but rejected the existence of its primary symptoms based on lack of “objective evidence” when condition was one for which medical tests typically return normal
• holding ALJ’s direct interpretation of the raw medical data in assessment of claimant’s fibromyalgia constituted harmful error warranting reversal and remand
• ordering remand where ALJ's reasons for according \little weight\ to treating source opinion were unpersuasive
• reversing and remanding ALJ’s decision denying disability benefits where it was based, in part, on “a misreading of the record”
• “the amount of weight that can properly be given the conclusions of non-testifying, non- examining physicians will vary with the circumstances, including the nature of the illness and the information provided the expert”

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