Sam Macfie wrote:
> Subject: Domino Syndrome
> Just a suggestion for a name for patients who, on recovering from one
> usually rather nebulous complaint immediately develope another
> unrelated ailment and so on and on....... I have several such. Does
> anyone else and is there another name for these unfortunates? - not
> quite hypochondriasis or Munchausen's. They are very difficult to deal
> with.
>
What about 'lead swinger'. I have no idea of the origin of the term,
but it is widely used and understood. If you like, I could no doubt
get it translated into Latin, something on the lines of
'Plumboscillator'
Mike Wells
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