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	Medical Issues in Social Security Disability Dr. David Morton’s newest title is his most helpful. This former Chief Medical Consultant explains the SSA’s unwritten medical rules and how to best present your claimants’ impairments. The book is filled with nuggets about shortcomings in submitted medical records, the types of mistakes adjudicators are most likely to make, where generous allowances are provided claimants, ailments and tests frequently overlooked by treating doctors, and much more. Best of all, Dr. Morton helps you obtain medical records satisfactory to the SSA with his new residual functional capacity forms. $129 buys two volumes containing 1200 pages and a full-text CD with forms in Word. Updated annually for $89.

	Wilborn's Social Security Disability Advocate's Handbook By Ralph Wilborn. A sophisticated analysis of the rulings by the national authority on the subject. 60 “commands” to agency adjudicators, rebuttals to frequently used but invalid reasons for ALJ rejections, how to block inappropriate consultative examinations, RFC questionnaires and more. Includes a unique, 66-page, annotated index-to/summary-of the rulings. This big two-volume work, chock-full of valuable tools available nowhere else, costs $165. Updated annually at $89.

	Social Security Disability Practice By Tom Bush. What to do and how to do it. This popular, forms-heavy work by a former NOSSCR president walks you step-by-step from interview through hearing and appeal. Loaded with valuable tips and model questions. “Worth buying solely for Mr. Bush’s more than 20 valuable RFC questionnaires.” “The book to get if you can only afford one.” $149 brings you the two-volume set and two forms disks. Updated annually for $89.

	Social Security Issues Annotated By Sarah Bohr. A brief writer’s guide to the law on the key issues. Pre-researched language and up-to-date citations you can import from the disk into your supporting papers. Contains (1) a case update summarizing recent cases, (2) an outline of the law of the last six years, and (3) digests of the regulations, rulings and cases organized by 44 issues. Only $95 buys the 1300-page, two-volume work and a full-text CD. The CD includes 26 complete briefs drafted by one of the best brief writers in the nation. Updated annually for $69.

	Social Security Advisory Service By Peter Young and Robert Dawes. An accessible and compact quarterly reporting service used by many OHA offices. Recent SSA transmittals, new rulings, and precedent-setting cases are summarized, indexed and compiled in fast-access format. Includes a quick-reading newsletter containing hard-to-obtain details about policy changes, pending legislation, cost of living increases, coverage changes and more. $149 buys the book and a year’s service (regularly $175).

	Social Security Disability Medical Tests By David A. Morton, III, M.D. Were your client’s medical tests properly performed? By the right person? Interpreted correctly? What is the chance of a false negative result? Find the answers in this 950-page plain English guide to 457 medical tests frequently encountered in SSA disability determinations. Real-life examples and explanatory drawings accompany many tests. $129 for book and full-text CD. Updated annually for $89.