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malingerer

in military law, a person who pretends to be ill or who deliberately injures himself, as by shooting himself in the foot, to render himself unfit for service or to delay return to service.
Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006
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This is due to the emerging label of "malingerers" and its associated stigma.
Advantages include systematic monitoring of employees, liaison with medical professionals and insurers, plus the accurate identifying of malingerers.
The current material now available on the subject of working with malingerers provides little information about successfully managing a helping relationship with such individuals (Kagle, 1998).
A variety of tests, including the Romberg, Fukuda, and balance platform tests, can help establish the presence of vestibular dysfunction and weed out malingerers trying to "beat the system."
A variety of tests, including the Romberg, Fukuda, and balance platform tests, can assist in establishing the presence of vestibular dysfunction and in weeding out malingerers attempting to "beat the system." Dr.
This typology consists of seven worker categories: the Replicated Family Worker, the High Achiever, the Assaulted Superego Worker, the Maligned Worker, the Outcast, the Constant Turmoil Worker and the Malingerer.
I could not believe that despite my many years of unblemished service I was a suspected malingerer because of that one incident.
My other half, Steph, also had a bad friend; a self-absorbed, attention-seeking malingerer known as 'Inga'.
Mitigating, Nick Wrack, told the hearing in Colchester, Essex, that Glenton suffered post traumatic stress after his first stint in the war zone and when he raised concerns about returning he was "called a coward and a malingerer" by his sergeant.
After listening to their graphic descriptions he will be made to feel he is a mere pretender to the throne, a malingerer who has made a mountain of a molehill.
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