The Social Security Administration has identified certain medical conditions as sufficiently severe to automatically qualify for benefits. A confident social security disability attorney is familiar with this information and, in appropriate cases, can provide copies of pertinent regulations to your treating physicians for review. If the doctor identifies that your condition meets these requirements, it greatly increases the likelihood that you will receive social security disability benefits. Unless asked, physicians do not automatically know about this information, making it vitally important that you obtain a competent attorney to check into this aspect of your claim.