> 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.
I have hundreds!!
I call it: "the fill-in-the-gaps syndrome", or: "plugging the holes
syndrome", or: "the little Dutch boy with a hundred fingers in the
dam syndrome".
You're dead right, they are very difficult to deal with. Very very
few of them I actually like and just sit ther smiling in a fatherly
way. The rest: grrrrrrr.
Have you noticed how they seem to be able to tack you down? You pop
into the surgery on Sunday afternoon for a wee and: whoomph, they
are there, knocking on the door, "hello doc, I just thought, since
you are here, perhaps you could....."
I don't know how they do it!!
Does anybody remember a poem by Kipling called "Boots" (I think)?
That's how I feel most of the time.
Ahmad
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