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Clin Med (Lond)
; 5(4): 400-1, 2005.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16138498
RESUMO
The arrival on the hospital ward of a person who was fabricating an illness was an unsettling experience for the medical and nursing staff involved. As the patient was expected only to be present for a short time and claimed to have a proven diagnosis, the approach may have been less rigorous than usual. The article describes the experience of three members of staff with a patient who proved to have Munchausen's syndrome, and their reaction to discovering the truth.