Case Lab · Type B · Transfer

F68

Feigned, but why?

Two patients are each found to have intentionally exaggerated their symptoms during an assessment. The first has an active compensation claim pending following a workplace injury, and the exaggeration closely tracks the details relevant to that claim. The second has no pending claim, disability application, or legal matter of any kind, and the exaggeration does not correspond to any identifiable external benefit; when asked, this second patient appears to genuinely want to be seen as unwell rather than to gain anything specific from it.