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
A. Bassett Jones has written: 'Malingering or the simulation of disease' -- subject(s): Medical jurisprudence, Malingering
Malingering is difficult to distinguish from certain legitimate personality disorders, such as factitious diseases or post-traumatic distress syndrome
J. E Fournier has written: 'The detection of auditory malingering' -- subject(s): Examinations, Malingering, Hearing
It could be malingering.
malingering
It means pretending to be ill or disabled in order to avoid work.
yes
Factitious is the intentional production of physical or psychological symptoms in order to be diagnosed as ill (making up some symptoms that are not existed, with the aim of being diagnosed as ill). Malingering has more to do with exaggeration of symptoms, meaning that the symptoms are there but not as the patient is describing them. Both have a common feature in which the intention is to gain a reward, avoid duties or financial compensation. Factitious does not bring any external reward but Malingering does.
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