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Originally Posted by ultramar
There's a patient who I've occasionally interpreted for who regularly comes into the ER with abdominal pain. A nurse, frustrated and annoyed, told me once that she's had every test there is, more than once, and they can find nothing -there's nothing wrong with her.
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I am not saying sometimes people do not fake symptoms for various reasons. I believe those reasons may be legitimate reasons to fake something to get what they want - I want drugs so I will do x and I can get them - I don't find wanting drugs to stop pain to be not a good reason even where those without the pain cavalierly suggest that some pain is to be expected and so forth - but that is not how this example reads to me.
This example smacks of "because we can't find anything with our tests, she can't be feeling pain/there is nothing wrong with her."
Which is simply untrue.