Opinion ID: 619074
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Memorandum of June 21, 2007

Text: The first opinion is contained in a memorandum Dr. Thompson prepared in which he described Ms. Franklin’s diagnoses and the medical tests that supported -5- them. In this memorandum, he expressed his opinion that, to “a reasonable degree of medical certainty . . . this long list of intolerable problems has made this relatively young woman totally disabled.” Aplt. App., Vol. II at 229. The ALJ assigned little weight to this opinion about disability because it was “unsupported by the accompanying treating medical clinic records, as well as invading the ultimate issue of disability as reserved for the determination of the Commissioner.” Id. at 16. Ms. Franklin concedes that issues of total disability are reserved to the Commissioner. See 20 C.F.R. § 404.1527(e)(1). Moreover, other than his conclusory statement that she was “totally disabled,” Dr. Thompson did not express any opinion in his June 2007 memorandum concerning Ms. Franklin’s physical or mental capabilities. We conclude that the ALJ’s decision to give the opinion expressed in this memorandum little weight is supported by substantial evidence.