 |
 |
> 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 _________________________________________ Ahmad Risk MB BCh home tel: +44(1293)782255 fax: +44(1737)244660 http://www.cybermedic.org/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%