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SYSK Selects: How Munchausen Syndrome Works

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Is There a Munchausen Case?

Roy Meadows wrote a study about both of these cases called it Munchausen by proxy and just basically like changed everything. He took this fairly obscure disease and turned it into this huge almost hysterical entity. One of the problems is if you are suspected of this at least in the States and I think the UK is big on it too, all a physician has to do is say you know call family and children's services or whatever you call it in your county or state but then you go through the hoops to prove that you don't have it. The burden of proof is on the parent who has been accused.

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