Do you guys have 'Man Flu'? This is often thought to be malingering, particularly by women, but is in fact a ghastly infection that only strikes the male of the species in Britain. Getting official recognition of this is taking a long time and here is a web site describing it: Man Flu (It's not a cold, it's flu....)
A friend was called a malingerer in the army, he liked that label so much, he puts it on his business cards as his title! Dave