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14. Tell her to make an application for disability

Remember Social Security has a duty to develop the record, INCLUDING sending her to consultative exams. Social Security will pay for those exams (an exam done by a doctor paid for by Social Security). Sometimes you end up being examined by a doctor who practice is something else, but they can still report on the restrictions your sister is suffering from. Thus tell her to apply for Social Security, tell Social Security of her restrictions and lets see what Social Security does.

At the same time I would continue to look for a doctor for treatment. That is the source Social Security wants anyway. Tell her to get treatment, even if it is nothing we can do. Then name that medical provider to Social Security and lets see what Social Security will do.

My experience is Doctors do NOT want to do the paperwork Social Security wants them to do and thus will only do it for a patent they are otherwise treating. So do NOT look for a Doctor to do the paperwork required by Social Security, look for a Doctor who will treat her medical problems.