orphan patient
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A patient with primary hypochondriasis who has its psychodynamic origin in the unconscious gratification of bodily symptoms and physical suffering that begins when a patient mistakenly assigns serious disease to normal bodily functions or to benign symptoms of trivial illnesses or to the somatic symptoms of emotional arousalSegen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
orphan patient
Psychiatry A Pt with primary hypochondriasis that has its psychodynamic origin in the unconscious gratifications of bodily Sx and physical suffering that begins when a Pt mistakenly assigns serious disease to normal bodily functions or to benign Sx of trivial illnesses or to the somatic Sx of emotional arousal. See Munchausen syndrome, Self-mutilation. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Omer Choudhri as a hospitalist to be responsible for "orphan patients" while they are being treated there.
The number of orphan patients has continued to increase in recent years, as family practitioners forgo hospital privileges to concentrate on their office-based practices.
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