About The Author
I have won 96% of my cases. The reason it's so high is because I happened into a unique situation which is rarely duplicated: At the start (1989) I enlisted the help of a licensed psychologist and vocational expert who was (and still is) working as both a psychology expert and a vocational expert for 
;advocates of patients trying to win SSA disability benefits. This is a rare find. Ninety-nine percent of the medical and vocational experts who testify on the behalf of SSA refuse to work for advocates for fear of jeopardizing their favored status with the Administration. At $500 per case, I spent a minimum of $75,000 on his testing and expertise over 5 years. I never failed to win a case where I used him to test and write a report on his findings.
Transparent Adjudication
On top of that, an Administrative Law Judge in the Baltimore hearing office conducted his "hearings" like no other in the United States: He invited a handful of representatives into his chambers at the same time and took us one by one through each case. So every representative "invited" got a crash course on SSA disability process and procedure in real time. Nothing was hidden. All legal issues were laid out on the table and given the opportunity to be resolved.
Make no mistake, he never skirted the law, but demanded substantiation of every allegation made by the patient's advocate. He rarely denied anyone. If medical substantiation was insufficient, then he permitted a continuation of the hearing which would allow the representative enough time to get the documents needed to show disability under SSA's rules. This judge's procedure is unheard of in the industry -then and now.
Medical Training & Experience
All of the above is melded into my experience as a Hospital Corpsman in the Navy. I worked in the emergency room, intensive care unit, surgical wards, and occasionally the psychological wards at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, plus patient care in a private hospital after my tour of duty.