I intended to take the advice of my friend and not get well too soon, but in reality there was no malingering in the case, for I remained too low and weak to get out of my bed.
But at this time Hill was not merely a malingering melancholic.
I don’t know what special kind of miseries the Turks keep for malingering lunatics, but I promise you that without your permission they’ll never find out through me.
Another British doctor, also deceived, characterized Hill’s performance afterwards as “the most wonderful case of malingering he had ever heard of.
For to them we were not enemy subjects but patients on the same footing as Turkish officers, to be tested for malingering and treated in exactly the same way as their fellow countrymen.
Moïse had an uncle who was a patient—a malingering one—in the eye ward of Haidar Pasha; he was trying to get his discharge.
A malingering epileptic, to whom I had promised some tea, said the doctor could examine them for us and find out if they contained poison or not.
With this sordid view the trivial episode of the malingering scene at Salisbury is described with sickening minuteness.
It is a much more serious matter to accuse a person ofmalingering when in reality he may be suffering from an organic disease.
Malingering has become much more common since the National Health Insurance Act has been passed.
The feasibility of successfully malingering is greatly enhanced by the possession of some chronic organic disease.
The motive for his malingeringis perfectly obvious.
But that which was at one time a spontaneous, unconsciously motivated mental reaction may later become a conscious volitional act, an only available means of escape--malingering of mental symptoms.
Clinically, malingering is to be considered from three distinct viewpoints:-- 1.
Penta[4] cites many well-authenticated cases of malingering of mental symptoms in children.
The clinical pictures presented by the acute prison psychosis are especially apt to awaken suspicions of malingering in the minds of the untrained.
This brings us to the subject of malingering proper.
B] Penta, after a thorough discussion of the subject of malingering in children, comes to the conclusion that children use all the diverse forms of fraud, from simple lying to simulation, much more frequently than is believed or known.
Nevertheless, paradoxical though it may seem, cases of pure malingering of mental disease are comparatively rare in actual practice.
Once Donkin reviled him for half an hour; reproached him with the extra work his malingering gave to the watch; and ended by calling him "a black-faced swine.
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.
There was a certain suggestion of malingering about the admission of the lad that he could have spoken before he was induced to do so.
According to Mott, malingering in the form of an assumed Shell-shock is not uncommon amongst soldiers, and is rather hard to distinguish from a neurosis developing on the basis of an idée fixe.
The psychology of malingering and functional neuroses in peace and war.
Before he had succeeded in doing so, however, he suffered Shell-shock, and got a true hysterical deafmutism, which showed no signs of malingering whatever.
Here one does not refer to malingering in the conscious and designed sense of the term, but to the operation of some genuinely psychopathic, that is to say, hysterical process.
In fact, he thought that malingering amongst soldiers and amongst injured industrial workers had been much exaggerated.
He remarks that malingeringis sometimes suspected in these cases.
Self inflicted injuries and malingering among recruits under observation; according to data of the Kiyev military hospital for 1911.
Craig has found very few cases of actualmalingering and states that tremors and paroxysms are often mistaken therefor.
We want to talk less about malingering and more about insanitary conditions, which is the real cause of excessive claims.
A cry of malingering was raised in various quarters, and we were asked to believe that excessive claims could be prevented by stricter and more careful administration.
The sneer of "malingering" is easily raised, but it is doubtful whether real malingering has much to do with it.
Shamming madness is a favourite form of malingering indulged in by prisoners.
It cannot be denied that great malingering and deception are practised by prisoners, which necessitates the greatest vigilance on the part of the officials.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "malingering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
