Brannon W. TURNER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Brannon W. Turner appeals from the district court’s judgment affirming the deci sion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services awarding him Social Security disability benefits 1 from January 1, 1984, but continuing to deny him benefits from the date of his amended application on March 1, 1979 through December 31, 1983. We affirm that portion of the district court’s decision which approved the award from January 1984 but reverse and remand the denial of benefits from March 1979 to December 1983.

Since 1976 Turner has suffered from arthritis, hiatal hernia, prostate…