Noah C. BELL, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

In this Social Security disability case, we review the district court’s conclusion that the administrative law judge and appeals counsel did not err in concluding that appellant is not disabled. This is a troubling case in which the claimant’s treating physician concluded that the claimant is totally disabled because of massive heart enlargement while the AU relied upon a consulting physician’s single examination and the report of the agency’s medical consultant that the claimant retained the ability to perform a full range of sedentary activities.

Bell was bom May 24,1928, has a college…