Saywhat? Good luck with your claim. I think the doctor's office you are being sent to will turn out to be a decent MD office. I say that because it is in a medical office complex right next to a hospital. Rent in those places is pricey compared to at other locations in a town. That means the doctor most likely has a legitimate practice, aside from having a contract with SSA to do "consultative exams." Where I went that creeped me out was an office in a strip mall far away from the downtown of where I live. It sure wasn't near any hospital, and the little mall wasn't strictly for medical offices. It looked as it the doctor seeing me was only there a few days a week and that he was sharing the office with some lady who was a practitioner of "holistic" health services - like herbal remedies and massage.

I had read on-line that, if they send you for a "consultative exam," it's a bad sign and probably means that your own doctors didn't write up convincing progress notes substantiating your disability. Well that may even be true, but things sure turned out well for me. I have a suspicion that the person who may have helped me the most was the psychiatrist who did the consultative exam (CE.) So there is a lesson to everyone. You never now where your best support may come from. The lady pdoc who did the CE was very thorough and listened to me for over an hour. At the end, she said that she could not predict the SSA's decision, but would "do [her] best" for me.

So there you go. Let us know, Saywhat?, how it goes for you.