Major Munchausen
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,...