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Patient sees the fuel warning light activate and decides they can 'definitely make it' 41 more miles to the cheaper gas station across town. Has run completely dry twice in their life. The second time was last Tuesday. Refuses to pay the $0.20-per-gallon premium at the closer station.
Chronic. Has run out of gas twice, learned nothing.
None. The $0.20 savings is a principle.
Patients with Pathological Fuel-Light Gambling typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Fuel-Light Gambling belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Aleatoria pretii energeticy, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.