Sharon K. COX, Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of Social Security, Appellee

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• noting that the burden to prove that the claimant can adapt to available jobs shifts to the Commissioner at step five
• finding the ALJ did not properly develop the record when it clearly lacked relevant medical records
• questioning whether a claimant with many \years of medical records detailing repeated complaints of severe pain\ and treatments for severe pain could be found not credible
• finding an “objective medical fact supporting Cox’s subjective complaints of pain is the consistent diagnosis of chronic lower back pain, coupled with a long history of pain management and drug therapy
• ALJ’s duty to develop facts fully and fairly is enhanced when claimant not represented by counsel
• long history of pain management and drug therapy is objective medical fact evidencing pain

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