Opinion ID: 201856
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Heading: The August 27 Jacques report

Text: 44 Prudential also relied in part on the restrictions provided by . . . Dr. Jacques on August 27, 1997. But Dr. Jacques' listing of physical activities Buffonge could not perform did not create the inference that any activity not on the list was one Buffonge could perform. Dr. Jacques began the crucial passage by stating that Buffonge was disabled from any gainful employment at the present time. In light of that unequivocal statement, the specifics that follow — disabled from bending, lifting, etc. — appear to us illustrative. It would make no sense for Dr. Jacques to have stated that Buffonge was disabled from any gainful employment and then in the very next sentence to have implied that there was in fact gainful employment he could perform. Dr. Jacques had also deemed Buffonge fully disabled in all of his other reports; Prudential's reading of the exemplars as refuting Dr. Jacques' consistent conclusion that Buffonge was fully disabled is simply unreasonable. The August 27 report therefore does not support Prudential's conclusion that Buffonge could perform sedentary work. 12