Patient uses their hazard lights for every single parking scenario: double-parked 'just for a second,' stopped in a no-stopping zone for 18 minutes, and, on one occasion, at a drive-through waiting in line. Believes hazards grant temporary legal parking rights. They do not.
Permanent. The flashing is, apparently, a permit.
None. Parking tickets have not adjusted the theory.
Patients with Pathological Hazard-Light Misuse typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Hazard-Light Misuse 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 Signalis periculosum inappropriate, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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