When a patient is referred for examination by an attorney When the onset of illness coincides with a large financial incentive, such as a new disability policy When objective medical tests do not confirm the patient's complaints
Malingering public servants who never do any work anyway
Malingering
Malingering is difficult to distinguish from certain legitimate personality disorders, such as factitious diseases or post-traumatic distress syndrome
A. Bassett Jones has written: 'Malingering or the simulation of disease' -- subject(s): Medical jurisprudence, Malingering
J. E Fournier has written: 'The detection of auditory malingering' -- subject(s): Examinations, Malingering, Hearing
malingering
It could be malingering.
It means pretending to be ill or disabled in order to avoid work.
yes
"Malingering" was the enslaving owner's term for a Black person who they believed was faking illness. Plantation physicians often recommended treatments of "veiled medical violence" to jolt the person out of fakery and back to work. The majority of doctors and plantation owners never considered that the deplorable conditions of enslavement actually contributed to, or caused genuine illnesses. Laziness was always the reason for "malingering' in their estimation--at least until the person fell dead. This is not to say that the enslaved did not use "malingering" at times to gain time to plan an escape. (See pages 30-31 in Harriet A. Washington's, "Medical Apartheid-The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" for details).
Recklessness or indiscipline • Malingering • Self-inflicting wounds
Nancy Jean Klimczak has written: 'The malingering of Multiple Sclerosis and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury' -- subject(s): Brain, Complications, Malingering, Multiple sclerosis, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Multiple sclerosis, Wounds and injuries