malingering

Long COVID: Alice Evans, brucellosis, and reflections on infectious causes of chronic disease Smith, Tara C Despite over a century of research on the link between infection and chronic diseases, we again find ourselves flummoxed by a new pathogen that causes long-term impairment. Patients have...

Recently, I saw an S4ME discussion about a Reddit thread, and in the Reddit thread, a doctor accused people with ME of subconsciously making themselves sick for secondary gain. That inspired me to look up research on malingering. Disturbingly, most papers claim malingering is very common. For...

Abstract Functional neurological disorder (FND) is one of the commonest reasons that people seek help from a neurologist and is for many people a lifelong cause of disability and impaired quality of life. Although the evidence base regarding FND pathophysiology, treatment and service...

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.729.2487&rep=rep1&type=pdf Too big to upload the PDF

Not a recommendation. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/28/the-benefits-of-chronic-illness/

Just saw this on twitter and must say I agree.. Here is link to the test on Medscape: A 36-Year-Old Woman in Undetermined Pain: Osmosis USMLE Study Question of the Week It has gotten some comments and criticism.

"It is a sad irony that Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing, who made such important contributions to public health through her advocacy of sanitation, statistics, and common sense, should also be remembered as history's most famous invalid and possibly as its most...