In review of the Request For Reasonable Accommodation Information and Instructions (CDCR 855) form, the following information was requested, and the following substantive answers are provided after having reviewed Mr. Finley’s On-File Medical Information:
• Documentation of the medical condition/disability that includes, unless the disability is patently obvious, a medical recommendation for reasonable accommodation.
Having reviewed Mr. Finley’s medical information, as his primary care physician over the past five years, I can verify, without providing a definitive diagnosis, that Mr. Finley suffers from an ongoing and permanent, lifelong disability which substantially limits the following major life activities as defined by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008: Performing manual tasks, concentrating, sleeping, thinking and working. Additionally, the prescribed medical treatment he receives to mitigate the aforementioned results in side effects which substantially limit the very same major life activities for a period of 7 to 8 hours following treatment. The side effects caused by medication and/or treatment that a patient must take because of a disability are limitations resulting from the disability. Reasonable accommodation extends to all limitations resulting from a disability.…