Judging character (and liars)

When your ward is bombarded with incredible number of difficult and complicated patients, you learn to pick up the one who really sick and the one that making up symptoms. The sick one tend to be quiet. The not so sick one tends to demand the painkillers and all sorts of crazy requests to either the nurses or doctors.

9 months after I started working, I have never met any proper recovering alcoholics.

I find chronic back pain patients are the most difficult to dealt with, especially the one I am suspecting pretend to have paraplegia ( at least the MRI has excluded spinal cord compression). Morphine dependance. Enuff said.