Word: gatto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report to military surgeons meeting in Washington, D.C. . . . last week, Psychiatrists Lucio E. Gatto and Henry L. Dean reported on medical goldbrickers in military service (or "nestlers," as the doctors call them): "Many give such convincing accounts of vague, disabling aches, pains and discomforts,that the unsuspecting physician will find himself hospitalizing them . . . in search of obscure, undetermined, and even rare diseases." Drs. Gatto and Dean suggested establishing centers near Army camps to provide outpatient treatment for potential nestlers, which would "reduce the financial burden of the nation...