Juraj Sitar v. Richard Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human Services

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• finding that a treating physician’s “conclusory statements . . . could reasonably have been rejected by the ALJ in the face of other 9 evidence”
• \[S]evere anxiety or depression is not in itself sufficient to establish eligibility for benefits absent a proper showing of related functional loss.\
• “severe anxiety or depression is not in itself sufficient to establish eligibility for benefits absent a proper showing of related functional loss.”
• “[S]evere anxiety or depression is not in itself sufficient to establish eligibility for benefits absent a proper showing of related functional loss.”
• “[A] treating physician’s diagnosis is not necessarily entitled to more weight than that of a [consultative] psychiatrist who examines the claimant only once.”
• balancing weight given treating physician against the entire record

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