Social Security Disability Medical Tests (Revision 14)

[LATEST REVISION] Here is the authoritative and detailed guidance for social security disability attorneys from a former SSA Chief Medical Consultant who has personally made more than 50,000 disability determinations. Dr. David Morton’s Social Security Disability Medical Tests answers the following questions for nearly every test you will encounter:

• When is the test warranted?
• Can SSA purchase it? Does it commonly do so?
• What are the relevant social security medical listings?
• What complications can result?
• How should the test be performed?
• Is the test objective, providing independently verifiable information based upon observation? Or is it subjective, depending upon the information elicited by the testing physician?
• What is the probability that the test will not detect the abnormality?
• What is the prevalence of the abnormality in the population?
• What is the normal range of test results?

The book is written in plain English and details more than 500 medical tests frequently encountered in SSA disability determinations. Real-life examples and explanatory drawings accompany many texts. Medical terms are explained as they occur in the text. Over 700 medical abbreviations are defined. Also provided are more than 80 normal laboratory test values and eight different treadmill stress test protocols.