Willie Earl McSWAIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that opinions of one-time examiners are not entitled to deference because they are not treating physicians
• holding that the ALJ did not err in asking a hypothetical question that assumed only the restrictions supported by the evidence and omitted unsupported restrictions
• holding that the ALJ did not err in asking a hypothetical question that assumed the only restrictions that the evidence supported and omitted other restrictions
• holding opinions of one- time examiners were not entitled to deference because the examiners were not treating physicians
• finding that opinions of consultative examining physicians “are not entitled to deference because as one-time examiners they were not treating physicians”
• stating that a doctor who examines a claimant on one occasion is not considered a “treating physician”

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