Laffat A. SRYOCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that an ALJ may reject the opinion of any physician if the evidence supports a contrary conclusion
• an ALJ is free to reject any physician’s opinion when the record as a whole supports a con- trary conclusion
• quotation credibility of witnesses is for the Secretary to determine, not the courts…The decision of the Secretary here, however, rests not so much on the credibility of the ‘history of pain; presented by Carnes, as on the adoption of a legal standard improper under Listing 10.10(A

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