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The Social Security disability examiner makes medical determinations for Social Security disability (SSDI or SSD) disability claims. The disability examiner is responsible for gathering all of your medical records and acquiring additional information from yourself or from your third party contact person. Additionally, if the disability examiner determines that you have no current medical treating sources (with in the past three months) or that the medical sources listed in the disability claims folder will not provide enough medical information to make a Social Security disability medical determination, the disability examiner will schedule a consultative examination. The disability examiner gathers all of the available information including medical treatment notes along the following: 1. any information obtained through the consultative examination, 2. vocational information such as your work history (jobs that you have performed in the fifteen years prior to the onset of your disability), 3. information regarding your educational background. All of this is gathered in an effort to make a medical determination about your ability to perform substantial work activity. After all, Social Security disability is based upon your ability to sustain work activity in spite of your mental and/or physical limitations. In most cases the job of the state disability agency examiner involves completing a medical decisional write up for the state disability unit physician to review, however single decision makers are allowed to make medical determinations in cases with obvious medical decisional outcomes without a unit physician review. 
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