| Researchers also note the need to examine the patient's psychological status when hysteria, malingering, or factitious illness may be a factor. |
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| Southern masters and overseers used timepieces to ensure that tasks were completed in a timely fashion and that slaves were not malingering. |
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| I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of. |
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| Because it is often impossible to determine who is malingering and who is not, it is impossible to know how frequently malingering occurs. |
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| But in the case of mental illness, people are inclined to shut their minds to it, or, even worse, accuse the sufferer of malingering. |
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| There's a fine line between what's classed as malingering and what is accepted as genuine illness. |
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| I can think of several options other than lying and malingering to explain the onset of hysterical symptoms and recovered memories. |
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| And if it is, what about the terrific temptation we create for malingering? |
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| Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering. |
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| And we all have some creative, malingering patients worthy of an Academy Award. |
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| Evidence for this may prove difficult to find, and it remains impossible to exclude malingering as a potential cause. |
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| Why are they malingering and eating up valuable Medicare tax dollars when they could so easily put us all out of their misery? |
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| Many people associate mental illness with self indulgence, weakness, and malingering. |
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| The patients were not diagnosed as having a factitious disorder or malingering because their symptoms were judged not to be fabricated, feigned, or intentionally produced. |
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| For many years there's been a belief that this is a psychological condition, that it doesn't really exist, that the patients are imagining symptoms or malingering. |
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| If independent doctors deem him to be malingering, he should be dragged to court. |
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| Moreover, a person playing the role of an evaluator rather than a treatment provider may be in a better position to assess for malingering. |
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| His employer suspected him of malingering, and hired private investigators to gain entry into his house under false pretences. |
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| Employers assume that the worker is malingering, and that this will affect production. |
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| However, it is important to understand at the outset that malingering can be very difficult to both detect and to prove. |
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| Nevertheless, there are some methods that have been developed to assist clinicians in the detection and investigation of malingering. |
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| We do not encourage malingering, idleness, panic and constant argumentativeness. |
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| A distinction should be made between factitious disorders and malingering. |
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| Some tackle contemporary issues by way of allegory, featuring wicked sultans and malingering imperialists. |
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| Feldman is a nationally known expert in the areas of factitious disorders, Munchausen by proxy and malingering, having written three books on these subjects. |
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| A dramatised sequence shows a malingering worker suffering from a bad conscience as the radio relays Harris' request for one last spurt of effort. |
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| Now that I am free, I have Medicaid and doctors no longer assume I am malingering. |
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| Doctors have struggled to distinguish the ailing from the malingering. |
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| Within the context of resolving disputes between insurers and claimants, determinations of malingering should be left to the formal Dispute Resolution Process. |
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| It has been observed that where a clinician plays a dual role of both treatment provider and evaluator it can be more difficult to detect malingering. |
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| The importance of using multiple sources of data when evaluating malingering is well recognised in the field, and is a key factor to consider when we are evaluating reports. |
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| Graham reported that a raw score over 16 at F scale of MMPI, which we used as a validity criteria in our study is in favor of malingering. |
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| It was impossible to perform the experiment on people actually suffering from hysterical paralysis, since they would not be able to pretend they were malingering. |
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| Assess prognosis: Care must be taken not to set definite deadlines in anticipating recovery and future employability, because inability to meet these deadlines may be interpreted as malingering. |
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| It is an effective tool as Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptoms, which is a comprehensive test for malingering. |
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| I expect my GP will be thrilled to hear I'm not just malingering and I've actually got Giant Cell Arteritis or Sarcoidosis. |
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| However, regarding tests, it must be understood that there really are no reliable, valid objective measures or tests of malingering, especially in the cross-cultural context of refugee claims. |
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| Ever since it was first given its name, in 1988, the condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome has been trivialized by doctors and laypeople alike, dismissed as mere malingering. |
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| Psychiatrists are often reluctant to consider the possibility of malingering, even in obvious situations, as an accusation of lying can damage if not destroy the therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient. |
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| Adopting the adaptational model of malingering in assessment can reframe the deception and misrepresentation as possibly an adaptive way to meet basic needs. |
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| His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work. |
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