What's the difference between malingerer and malingery?
Malingerer
Definition:
(n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Rey hypothesized that malingerers would be mislead to perform poorly while even individuals with severe concentration problems could succeed, a review of the literature did not reveal any empirical reports that examined the actual performance of nonmalingering though disturbed patients.
(2) Patients who receive worker's compensation or are awaiting litigation after an accident have long been regarded as neurotics or malingerers who are exaggerating their pain for financial gain.
(3) In the main study the expert clinician correctly identified all 20 malingerers.
(4) The results suggest that before isokinetic testing is considered as a possible way to distinguish malingerers among injured patients, normal values in an age-matched, nonathletic, working population should be clearly defined.
(5) Suggestions for confronting the malingerer are reviewed.
(6) It has been used for assessing visual function in infants, hysterical patients, and malingerers.
(7) The test significantly discriminated between genuinely ill patients and malingerers.
(8) The subjective complaints of malingerers must be viewed with skepticism.
(9) Because such patients usually have no objective signs of painful crises, they are often considered to be malingerers and drug abusers.
(10) Although Pascal-Suttell and Canter scoring methods failed to differentiate malingerers from an organic criterion group, an ABPP clinician sorted 89% of the records correctly in a pilot study.
(11) Fair or poor results were obtained in cases of malingerers claiming occupational accident, patients who had too quickly recommended physically demanding work, and cases associating other lesions (cervico-brachial neuralgia, epitrochleitis).
(12) Total obvious minus subtle T score discrepancy greater than 100 discriminated the student malingerers and produced few false positives among clinical populations such as psychiatric inpatients and outpatients.
(13) Both the malingerers and the psychotics either were untestable or produced incomplete or random MMPIs in about 50% of the cases.
(14) This paper presents a scale for using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 for the detection of malingerers in personal injury claims.
(15) Although he could not meet personal and professional responsibilities, his "measurable" intelligence was superior, and he was therefore considered a "malingerer."
(16) Though not definitive, these results suggested a syndrome of characteristics among such subjects which are similar to those proposed as likely characterizing malingerers.
(17) This article explores means whereby the physician can detect the malingerer.
(18) Special attention is focused on measurement, identification and interpretation of brainstem responses and their major clinical uses, namely threshold testing of infants, young children and malingerers, diagnosis of acoustic tumors and neurological evaluation of brainstem lesions.
(19) Discriminant analysis accurately classified malingerers and psychotics on the basis of MMPI variables.
(20) It is a valid method of dealing with suspected malingerers and those who cannot respond to standard audiometric techniques.
Malingery
Definition:
(n.) The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.