OPM Disability Retirement: A Doctor’s Comfort Level
Doctors are funny creatures. Administrative matters are often distasteful; yet, most doctors recognize that it is a necessary evil as part of the general practice of medicine. […] Read More …
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Medical Retirement Benefits for Federal & Postal Employees: The Treating Doctor
In a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS & CSRS, what distinguishes the entire process of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that a Federal or Postal employee […] Read More …
Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Understanding the Doctor
A question I often ask the treating doctor at the end of a Hearing before an Administrative Judge at the Merit Systems Protection Board (obviously for Disability Retirement benefits […] Read More …
Medical Retirement Benefits for Federal & Postal Employees: OPM’s Arsenal
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Or, perhaps those who are impliedly involved herein are not so innocent after all. Nevertheless, the names must be changed to […] Read More …
Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Necessary Doctor
Ultimately, the doctor who is necessary is the one who will be supportive. Whenever the question is asked of me whether it is “necessary” to have the support of this or that doctor, […] Read More …