Pseudopatient

Quick meaning: Pseudopatient is a noun meaning (medicine) A person who poses as a patient so that research may be conducted or staff trained.

Meaning

(medicine) A person who poses as a patient so that research may be conducted or staff trained.

More Meanings

1. (dated) A person who pretends to be ill, especially to gain some benefit.

Example Sentences

Most of the pseudopatients were falsely diagnosed with mental disorders.

His friends inform me my pseudo patient is still in bed enjoying a good appetite and apparently as well and fleshy as ever. His father when about the same age was troubled with the same malingering trouble; although in seeming good health, he persisted in keeping his bed for five years.

On one of the velvet sofas, full in the firelight, lay Federne asprawl. […] Federne started up and roared; caught Sarona by both his hands, and nearly shook his arms off; gave him no time to speak or escape (though Sarona still maintained his cue, and stared roundly upon his pseudo[-]patient), but bade Moss open the folding-doors, and led him in in triumph.

[C]ases not seldom occur where patients are discovered to be the recipients of dual treatment, and there is reason to believe that attendance at a hospital is often used as a means of obtaining alms in a form more acceptable than drugs, and that the latter are unceremoniously made away with in any manner rather than by pouring them down the pseudo-patient’s throat.

Word Forms

• pseudopatients

Synonyms for pseudopatient

Depending on context, synonyms include malingerer.

Related Words

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