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· 7/24/2015

William Price v. Carolyn Colvin

Citations

  • 794 F.3d 836
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 12875
  • 2015 WL 4503198

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that “psychiatric assessments normally are based primarily on what the patient tells the psychiatrist”
  • explaining that the GAF scale is used to rate a person’s adjustment to psychological and daily living challenges, but the scale has been criticized for its subjectivity
  • noting “psychiatric assessments normally are based primarily on what the patient tells the psychiatrist”
  • “[P]sychiatric assessments normally are based primarily on what the patient tells the psychiatrist. . . .”
  • “[P]sychiatric assessments normally are based primarily on what the patient tells the psychiatrist . . . .”
  • “[the treating doctor’s] professional training and experience would have taught him how to discount exaggerated statements by his patients.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Sykes, Hamilton

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