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Major Munchausen

Major Munchausen To the Editor.— This letter should alert physicians to another traveling Munchausen syndrome patient who gives a striking history. He is a cultured, intelligent, black man who gives his age as 47, his home as Boston, and has stated variously that he was a SAC pilot, a counterintelligence agent, shot down over Hanoi, etc. He entered Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital, Sept 26, 1974, giving a history of genitourinary pain and bleeding. An intravenous pyelogram visualized the right kidney, and the left kidney was absent. The patient received meperidine, 75 mg, three times and pentazocine 13 times. Hematuria was evidenced except when the patient was awakened in the middle of the night for a fresh specimen, which was clear. Nurses described him as restless and furtive particularly when urine was collected. When the suspicion of his attending physician was aroused, the patient suddenly checked out of the hospital (leaving a bill http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Major Munchausen

JAMA , Volume 231 (1) – Jan 6, 1975

Major Munchausen

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To the Editor.—
This letter should alert physicians to another traveling Munchausen syndrome patient who gives a striking history. He is a cultured, intelligent, black man who gives his age as 47, his home as Boston, and has stated variously that he was a SAC pilot, a counterintelligence agent, shot down over Hanoi, etc. He entered Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital, Sept 26, 1974, giving a history of genitourinary pain and bleeding. An intravenous pyelogram visualized the right kidney,...
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American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1975.03240130016004
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Abstract

To the Editor.— This letter should alert physicians to another traveling Munchausen syndrome patient who gives a striking history. He is a cultured, intelligent, black man who gives his age as 47, his home as Boston, and has stated variously that he was a SAC pilot, a counterintelligence agent, shot down over Hanoi, etc. He entered Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital, Sept 26, 1974, giving a history of genitourinary pain and bleeding. An intravenous pyelogram visualized the right kidney, and the left kidney was absent. The patient received meperidine, 75 mg, three times and pentazocine 13 times. Hematuria was evidenced except when the patient was awakened in the middle of the night for a fresh specimen, which was clear. Nurses described him as restless and furtive particularly when urine was collected. When the suspicion of his attending physician was aroused, the patient suddenly checked out of the hospital (leaving a bill

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 6, 1975

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