Effective advocacy requires informed and critical evaluation of your clients’ medical tests and their results. Were they properly performed? By the right person? Interpreted correctly? What is the chance of a false negative result?

Here is the authoritative and detailed guidance from a former SSA Chief Medical Consultant who has personally made more than 50,000 disability determinations. The book is written in plain English and details more than 450 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.