Factitious Münchausen's Syndrome

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To the Editor: Alerted by CPC 35–1979 and ensuing correspondence in the January 24 issue concerning the misrepresentation of illness by patients seeking unnecessary medical procedures or drugs, we recently recognized an unusual variant of simulated disease. We wish to inform the medical community of the existence of an individual who frequents hospital emergency rooms, requesting admission and medical care for a unique problem. The patient is a late-middle-aged man who gives the name of Norman U. Senchbau. At our institution, he stated that he suffered from Baron Münchausen's syndrome and demanded immediate hospitalization for this condition. He claimed habitually . . .

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