>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.
How about "Bubbler"?
A GP I used to work with said they were like bubbles of gas rising through
a liquid. As soon as one problem got to the top and popped another
would arrive. Think also of "Onions skins" etc.
Doug Jenkinson
Keyworth
Notingham
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Dr Sam Macfie, Haxby, York, UK
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