Fw: mmi Detecting malingerers

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I am so relieved! We are going to be protected from malingerers! Who's doing

studies to protect us against doctors who are making a very comfortable

living out of us?!!

I shouldn't be so harsh, maybe they are genuinely suffering from a very

localised form of " conversion disorder " which paralyses their little finger,

preventing them from lifting the afore mentioned little finger to help us!

Nelly, in Paris France, just saw all our planes and troops on the Champs

Elysées for the 14th of July parade, on TV, from my bed of course as this is

where I reside. Now Jacques Chirac is being interviewed (as is customary

each 14th of July) and I am most comforted to hear that the nation is

looking after all its citizens, especially the sick and the weak, but not

the malingerers!

Detecting malingerers

Hidden truths

Jul 10th 2003

From The Economist print edition

It is now possible to distinguish those with real paralysis from fakers