Indiana Social Security Disability Attorney

Social Security only pays benefits if you have a medical impairment that prevents you from working. The claimant has the burden of proof -that is a “lawyer way” of saying that you have to prove you have a medical impairment and you have to prove that the medical impairment is the reason you can not work.

The best proof of you having a medical impairment is the medical records that document a doctor diagnosing the impairment. When someone has something wrong and the doctors just can not figure out what it is, this can be a problem. This is why I believe that the best thing you can do for your claim is to get as much medical treatment as possible. There is still an art to practicing medicine, and it can take many visits to the doctor before the doctor gets that one piece of the puzzle that causes all of the other pieces to fall into place so that the doctor can give a diagnosis.

Sometimes the doctor has a pretty good idea what the problem is, but can not give an official diagnosis because one of the items that is required for that diagnosis is missing. For example, if the doctor must find six things to give the diagnosis, but can only find five, then most doctors will not give the official diagnosis of “X”. They may go ahead and treat the situation as if it is “X”, and they may tell the patient that the doctor thinks that the person has “X”, but no where in the chart will the doctor say that the person has “X”. With many visits, the doctor may learn information so that the doctor can confirm that the person has “X”. Without a diagnosis, many at Social Security do not want to find that you have proven you have a medical impairment even though you know that medically something just is not right. It is important that you understand the difference between what you know and what you can prove. Seeing your doctor as often as you can will help prove what you know.