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* One story from the ''[[Doctor Who]] 2007 Storybook'' has a boy putting his head next to a radiator to fake that he has a fever so that he can get sent to bed early and later sneak out to help the Doctor.
* From ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Harry Potter]]'': Fred and George Weasley's "Skiving Snackboxes". One end of the candy will make you graphically ill (nausea/vomiting, nosebleeds, rashes, etc.); upon being excused from your class, you eat the other half, which restores you to perfect health.
* The [[Shel Silverstein]] poem "Sick" consists of Peggy Ann McKay listing symptoms of her
* ''[[Papillon]]'' makes this into an artform. Hospitals have less security then the [[Penal Colony]] and a hospital stay can buy time to make better arrangements for labor assignments or plan escapes. They find ''many'' ways to feign illness; for example planting lice, eating spoiled food, or intentionally causing injuries. If that fails, bribe a doctor.
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* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Kennedy fakes being sick to get out of going on a vision quest with the other slayers, giving her a chance to take Willow out on a date.
* In one episode in ''[[El Chavo del Ocho]]'', a character played this, and used her (supposed) very contagious illness to scare all her neighbors. It ended with all the cast sick... except for El Chavo, who wanted most to get the illness so he could enjoy of hospital attention and regular income of food.
* Subverted in ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'': the titular heroine uses her powers to raise the level of mercury in the
* In one episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'', most of the police officers of [[New York City]] call in sick. They're striking due to not being paid.
** This is known as the "Blue Flu". Police unions use this tactic because police officers are not legally allowed to go on strike.
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== Real Life ==
* China's Wei General Sima Yi pulled this trick (along with his sons, too) so that he could plot a coup in secret without anyone being suspicious. This is also written in the novel ''[[The Romance Of Three Kingdoms]]''.
** Cao Cao did this as well. Not to say, they both faked to have some kind of neurological disorder ''in front of people''; Sima pretended to have what we call Alzheimer's now, and Cao pretended he had
** Lu Meng also used a fake illness to put Guan Yu off his guard.
* In ancient Rome, an epileptic fit was one of the omens considered dire enough to put an end to any public assembly where a fit was seen. The sufficiently cynical would see this as a useful political ploy.
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