POSNER, Circuit Judge.
An applicant for social security disability benefits appeals from the district court's affirmance of the denial of her application by an administrative law judge, whose decision became final when the Appeals Council of the Social Security Administration declined to review it.
The appellant is a 57-year-old woman who was diagnosed in 2002 with adhesive capsulitis ("frozen shoulder") in her right shoulder and later with chronic obstructive...
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