Ozie L. HILLSMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that the Commissioner cannot reject the opinions of treating physicians “because ALJ himself reached a different conclusion after viewing the medical records.”
• explaining that the Commissioner may not reject the opinion of a treating physician simply because the ALJ 46 “reached a different conclusion after viewing the medical records”
• finding the ALJ improperly “rejected the opinions of the treating physician not even on the basis of a differing opinion by another doctor, but rather because the ALJ himself reached a different conclusion after viewing the medical records.”
• “this court has previously cautioned against rejecting the opinions of treating physicians in favor of the contrary conclusions of consultants who have merely examined an applicant’s medical records.”

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