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Social Security disability examiners use medical history notes to establish a longitudinal medical treatment history of your medical impairment or mental impairment. Generally, disability examiners consider at least twelve months of medical treatment notes, of course they consider all relevant notes even if they occurred more than twelve months ago. Disability examiners gather medical treatment notes from the physicians that you provided the names, addresses, and phone numbers for during your Social Security disability interview. As your medical records begin to arrive, the disability examiner must determine if your medical notes are current (within the past three months), pertain to your alleged medical and or mental conditions, ascertain if there are additional impairments not mentioned during your disability interview that may affect their medical determination, and if the notes provided are sufficient for the medical determination. If your medical treatment notes are insufficient to make a medical decision, you may have to attend a consultative examination with a Social Security physician. This one time consultative examination is often hurried and substandard. Accordingly, I cannot stress just how important your medical history is to the your Social Security disability/SSI claim. Without the benefit of a medical history, an individual’s entire disability claim may be decided by this one time interview with a physician who has never seen you before. 
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