TY - JOUR T1 - A visitor with Munchausen's syndrome JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 400 LP - 401 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.5-4-400 VL - 5 IS - 4 AU - S Michael Crawford AU - Ganesan Jeyasanger AU - Marie Wright Y1 - 2005/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/4/400.abstract N2 - The arrival on the hospital ward of a person who was fabricating an illness was an unsettling experience for the medical and nursing staff involved. As the patient was expected only to be present for a short time and claimed to have a proven diagnosis, the approach may have been less rigorous than usual. The article describes the experience of three members of staff with a patient who proved to have Munchausen's syndrome, and their reaction to discovering the truth. ER -