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- Patients appear ill because they are feigning, exaggerating, or inducing symptoms.
- A mental disorder because the patient has an abnormal need for a sick role. Patients are aware of but will deny their deceit.
- Becomes apparent when there is a disease history stated in absence of symptoms, when symptom patterns are puzzling, or when there are nonhealing or unremitting symptoms despite adequate and correct treatment
- In factitious disorder by proxy, or Munchausen by proxy, an individual falsifies or induces illness in another person to vicariously accrue emotional payoffs, including sympathy, admiration, and/or feelings of power over care providers. Children are the usual victims and the mother is the usual perpetrator. The updated term for this activity is ...
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