What is the duty of a physician to develop the record at a medical malpractice hearing?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Young v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec., No. 2:15-CV-0663-CMK (E.D. Cal. 2016):
discharge the duty to develop the record by subpoenaing the claimant's physicians, submitting questions to the claimant's physicians, continuing the hearing, or keeping the record open after the hearing to allow for supplementation of the record. See id. (citing Tidwell v. Apfel, 161 F.3d 599, 602 (9th Cir. 1998)).
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