In your message dated Monday 8, July 1996 Sam M wrote :
> 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.
Aren't they called "heart sink" patients?
Try an antidepressant?
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Dr David J PLews
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