daughter from California syndrome

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English

Noun

daughter from California syndrome (uncountable)

  1. The situation where a long-lost distant relative arrives at the hospital where their dying elderly relative is being treated, and challenges the care the patient is receiving as inadequate; it is ascribed to guilt and denial.