Not everybody is denied on 1st try - No lawyers are needed -
The SSA Compassionate Allownce list provides a quick determination as well as being being unable to work because you have been diagnosised with a terminal illness.
Then you have others who have suffered an accident leaving then totally and permanently disabled - with all the medical history, these also go through without too much extra effort.
Then others aren't so easy to substantiate however a well documented medical history of treatments and prognosis - maybe from more than one doctor and of course, any other places where the patient has gone for treatment, the nature of the treatment and what did or did not occur as a result of this.
This sort of thing needs to be determined by a medical panel and not a lawyer or a judge - with the claimant, or someone acting on their behalf, supplying all the medical history and prognosis included who treated them, where and why.
It's Always Something . . . . Roseanna Roseannadanna