Even exaggerators and malingerers must be talked to as if neuropathic.
Amongst forty of his cases, he regarded at least nine as malingerers or exaggerators.
Lannois and Chavanne warn against the suggestions given to malingerers and to hysterics by the statements on the tickets of admission borne by the patients for transfer, e.
Ormond states that the true cases of concussion blindness invariably pass through phases of great discomfort; whereas the malingerersare without such discomfort.
Bispham remarks that few malingerers are found among the patients of a doctor who is known to be a thorough examiner.
Re malingering, Sicard denies the existence of unconscious malingerers (presumably regarding this phrase as a figure of speech in relation to hysteria), and divides malingering into a creative and an acquired form.
Re orthopedic cases like Case 454, Gleboff remarks upon the simulation of joint affections and upon methods of surprising the malingerers into sudden movements made in obedience to request in the course of medical examination.
Re Russel’s general point of view concerning malingerers and psychogenic cases, see under Case 458.
It would be an extremely interesting study to follow up the later careers of the so-called detected malingerers who are sent to prison and see how many of them later find their way to hospitals for the insane.
A picture like this may readily arouse the suspicion that we are dealing with a malingerer, and, indeed, some very prominent German psychiatrists have reported as malingerers cases similar to this.
The unfortunate malingerers allowed themselves to be crushed rather than stir; they perished in silence, smiling at their extinguished fires, without a thought of France.
The other serious problem of hospital management was to keep those not really suffering from serious disease, malingerers of various kinds, from occupying beds and claiming attention, to the deprivation of those who were genuinely ill.
I happened to be with Kemp, their surgeon, when sick call sounded, and I never saw such a line of impudent, ruffianly malingerers as filed before Kemp.
It was already thronged with the debris of the battle, skulkers, wounded men hobbling, pallid malingerersedging their furtive way out of fire.
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