can be a tricky business – one in which subtle or complex symptoms may be overlooked in some cases, and dishonest workers get away with malingering, or exaggerating illness for the sake of increased ...

“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 ...

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 ...

I have a patient who has type 1 diabetes and, despite her excellent control with multiple daily injections, her A1c remains very high: 17% to 18%. She has used an insulin pump, but the results didn't ...

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 ...