Well, I had quite a week. I spent about 4 hours per day in a classroom at Woodlawn studying the intricacies of how to gather and present the medical evidence needed to make the case or reject requests for disability. It is a very involved process and it requires scouring all of the information that is sent to the chart and then deciding if the documented information is consistent with the government's definition for the presence of a medical problem severe enough to preclude the client from engaging in gainful employment. If it does not, then I have to make a determination of the type of activities (with respect to cardiac problems since that is my specialty) the client is able to handle. They apparently employ several battalions (perhaps even regiments) of quality assurance testers who comb through the final reports to see if all the questions have been answered properly and if the conclusions are supported by the evidence. Then there are cadres of administrative law judges employed by SSA to hear appeals and reverse medical decisions. I can't wait to start.
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