Renee S. Phillips v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart

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• holding that treating physician’s testimony was properly discounted when it was inconsistent with physician’s treating notes and claimant’s testimony
• holding that an ALJ does not need to give a treating physician’s opinion considerable weight if evidence of the claimant’s daily activities contradicts the opinion
• concluding that an ALJ provided good cause for giving a treating physician’s opinion less weight in part because it was inconsistent with the claimant’s self-reports
• holding that a doctor’s opinion can be discounted if it is inconsistent with his own notes
• holding that the evidence supported the ALJ’s contrary finding where the treating physician was contradicted by his previous treatment notes and the claimant’s admissions about her activities
• holding that an ALJ has good cause to deny considerable weight to conclusory findings of a treating physician

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