“Malingering” – faking a sickness for an ulterior motive – is surprisingly common. Here are some of the ways in which doctors tell real illnesses from false ones. But Gigante was malingering: a term ...

can be a tricky business – one in which subtle or complex symptoms may be overlooked in some cases, and dishonest workers get away with malingering, or exaggerating illness for the sake of increased ...

Accused criminals frequently feign mental illness as a ploy to hinder prosecution and evade or lessen punishment. In one study 17.5 percent of the convicted criminals investigated by researchers were ...

With increasing numbers of patients presenting at our nation’s already oversubscribed emergency departments (EDs) for mental healthcare, the Psychiatric Times recently posed a pointed question: Just ...

Your Kid feeling pukish right before boarding the school bus? It is not uncommon to see kids both in real life and fiction pretending to be sick when it's time to catch the bus for school. It might be ...

Is malingering or pretending to be sick an issue in Nigerian courts? As a result of the peculiar, irregular, or not straightforwardly ways of systems and institutions in Nigeria, the environment ...

“Malingering” – faking a sickness for an ulterior motive – is surprisingly common. Here are some of the ways in which doctors tell real illnesses from false ones. They called him “The Oddfather”. He ...

Malingering is the purposeful production of falsely or grossly exaggerated physical and/or psychological symptoms with the goal of receiving a reward. This reward may include money, an insurance ...