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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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 similar finding also was reported by Davis, King, Klebe, Bajszar, Bloodworth, and Wallick (1997), who showed that greater priming scores were evident in control subjects versus simulated malingerers on two tests of word stem completion.
Inhibiting irrelevant information in malingered amnesia
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.
Mild traumatic brain injury often misdiagnosed. (Vertigo Issues)
The Malingerer is the type of worker who feels the world owes him or her a living and files a stress claim as part of an ongoing attempt to get something for nothing.
Who will be the next stress claimant?
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
The pairing of wheelchair-bound malingerer Andy and his long-suffering helper Lou was overwhelmingly voted for by visitors to the attraction.
Wax treatment for Little Briton
A less comical malingerer is Nick Nolte's Father Harlan.
LOOKING FOR GOD'S WILL IN THE BIG SKY
Aged 54 and having been branded a malingerer for "faking" bronchitis, he was sent to a lunatic asylum, where, suffering from Alzheimer's, he died believing he was a 14-year-old boy.
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He said: "These people start from a position that assumes anyone claiming benefits is a malingerer and a liar.
I WAS INSULTED AND CALLED A LIAR
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