malingerer


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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.
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This is due to the emerging label of "malingerers" and its associated stigma.
Posttraumatic stress disorder: five vicious cycles that inhibit effective treatment
Advantages include systematic monitoring of employees, liaison with medical professionals and insurers, plus the accurate identifying of malingerers.
Emotive issue of managing absence
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).
Social work and malingering
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."
Vertigo issues can blur dx of mild brain injury. (Grocery Store Test Can Help)
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.
Mild traumatic brain injury often misdiagnosed. (Vertigo Issues)
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.
Who will be the next stress claimant?
I could not believe that despite my many years of unblemished service I was a suspected malingerer because of that one incident.
Unblemished service counted for little; FEEDBACK
My other half, Steph, also had a bad friend; a self-absorbed, attention-seeking malingerer known as 'Inga'.
My guide to surviving and losing bad friends
This former children's support worker is anything but a malingerer yet she has fallen prey to the devastating effects of ME.
Sufferers are seen as 'lazy' by many but living with ME can be a nightmare; ME is a condition which has driven people to suicide yet some people still deny its existence. HANNAH DAVIES speaks to two sufferers about living with this debilitating condition
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.
JAIL FOR SOLDIER WHO REFUSED TO GO BACK TO WAR; He spoke out against tour
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.
The maligning of the 'malingerer'
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