Mum pretends child is seriously ill for the perks.

[Gnizmo]

Words Of Wisdom said:

Gnizmo said:
Yeah, lets all pay attention to a clear cut Muchausen's case. That is clearly the best course of action. Better to edit out all the names from any story, and run them quietly where they won't garner all that much attention.

Oh noes.  Look out everyone.  Gnizmo learned a new word off this week's episode of House.

I don't think House has ever dealt with it in a case where the person uses someone else. Picked it up via a psyh background.

@Highwaystar
Define to this extent. Getting these kind of results is exceedingly rare obiously. I would not doubt it happens to this level of cruelty very commonly. A horrific numbr of infants die to these kind of antics. Of course I think 1 a year is a horrific number, and can't recall the hard numbers off-hand.