Social Security Disability Consultative Medical Exams or "CE"s are usually requested by a disability examiner with the Disability Determination Services. The claimant is requested to have an examination of his disability claim by a physician designated by the DDS. These exams are paid for by DDS and not by the person being examined. Some doctors may fail to give the claimant the same level of courtesy that they would generally extend to one of their regular patients and often does not have the claimant's best interests in mind. Many physicians do not give proper credence to a patient's complaints of pain, likely because pain is a subjective matter rather than a measurable and objective one.