Pseudopatient

//ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt//

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  • 假病人 noun (person who pretends to be ill, especially to gain some benefit — see also malingerer)
  • 假病人 noun (person who poses as a patient for research or staff training)

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[W]e were informed of a Frank physician who had been rewarded for his professional services by the present of a house, valued at five thousand dollars. […] The original proprietor appeared, and was received with great courtesy by the doctor, who prescribed immediately for some chronic disease of which the Armenian complained. The sum of $500 was put into his hands with great formality by the pseudo patient, and he stopped the grateful doctor's thanks immediately, by informing thim that this sum was not a fee, but an equivalent for the original purchase-money of his house, which he civilly requested him to evacuate as soon as possible.

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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.

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As he [an old madman] walked, his foot came in contact with the inert body of the doctor extended upon the floor, surrounded by a sea of blood. The poor fool stooped and examined the object on the ground, and suddenly a gleam of reason came into his benighted brain, for he took Ali Kan's body tenderly into his arms, raised it, and drew out the murderer's weapon implanted in his bosom. In doing this, his eyes fell upon Tony, who now seemed spellbound, dividing his attention between the action of his pseudo-patient and the phantom in white. More light seemed to dawn in the idiot's brain, for, letting the doctor slip back on to the floor, he threw himself upon Tony, and struck him with the knife, upon which the blood of Ali Kan was still wet.

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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.

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