Jet-Set Münchausen Syndrome

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To the Editor: Last May, a United States Air Force air evacuation plane from Athens, Greece, was diverted in mid-flight to take a 40-year-old man to the Air Force Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany, for uncontrollable coronary-artery pain. The patient claimed to be an attorney from San Francisco with a loose connection to the Teamsters' Union who had had six myocardial infarctions since 1969. He had been hospitalized in Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island, for two weeks for chest pain. He left the island hospital, against medical advice, by a civilian aircraft to Paris, which was diverted to Athens because of his . . .

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