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1. s1arti+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-01-27 00:58:35
throughout the article I was confused by the term "pseudo-patient". What does it mean in this context?

Did Roseanhan claim to have a dr-patient relationship with them. Do they just mean alleged-patients or alleged study subjects?

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2. unisha+u[view] [source] 2020-01-27 01:05:13
>>s1arti+(OP)
I assumed it meant they were faking the symptoms to test if they got admitted.
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3. Lazare+E3[view] [source] 2020-01-27 01:48:54
>>s1arti+(OP)
It's the term he used for the subjects he claimed to have recruited (or for himself, in one case) who pretended to have symptoms to get admitted.

It's to make the point that he didn't recruit actual patients for the study, but (in his telling) perfectly sane people to pretend to be ill.

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