The travels of a young man feigning subarachnoid haemorrhage in London and Scotland, over the past year, are documented. The origins of the Munchausen Tales are reviewed.
Symptoms fabricated by the mother, and abnormal maternal pressurising of medical staff, resulted in misinterpretation of sweat test results and a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in a two year old child. ...
Most faculty are not prepared for the possibility of encountering Munchausen syndrome (MS) in nursing students and Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) in nursing students' children. When confronted wit...