noun
General Slang
Crock
· noun · medical
A patient with endless vague complaints and nothing actually wrong.
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The patient on your list with a 14-system review of complaints, a stack of normal scans, and no diagnosable disease. Sometimes genuinely somatising, sometimes anxious, always exhausting. Crosses into outright contempt when it sticks to the same patient through multiple admissions.
“She's a crock — fifth admission this year, every workup normal, every doctor a 'horrible person' by the time she discharges.”
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Crock In A Sentence
She's a crock — fifth admission this year, every workup normal, every doctor a 'horrible person' by the time she discharges.
Origin & Usage
Shortened from 'crock of shit' — the chart full of symptoms that don't add up to a diagnosis. Studied formally in a 1983 Cambridge sociolinguistics paper alongside 'gomer' and 'turkey' as the classic trio of undesirable-patient labels.
Variants
crock of shit
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