“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 ...

When you were a child, did you ever pretend to be sick to get out of going to school? There’s actually a medical name for this behavior; it’s called malingering. It refers to producing false medical ...

‌Malingering is pretending to have an illness in order to get a benefit. The feigned illness can be mental or physical. Malingering is also when someone intentionally or knowingly exaggerates symptoms ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — At a session on detection of malingering mental illness here at the U.S. Psychiatric and Mental ...

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 ...

Understand the distinctions between malingering, feigning illness, and deceptive reporting and the issues that complicate research and identification of feigning in clinical practice. Recognize the ...

Jody and Donna were his first two victims. As they sat in Jody’s car in front of Donna’s house on a warm and muggy late summer evening in the Bronx, David Berkowitz walked up with his Bulldog revolver ...

But this nickname now reveals a more sinister side to Teresa, who robbed her community of more than $41,000 ($US31,000) by pretending her seven-year-old had cancer ...

“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 ...