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Striving to Die: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Dilemmas Behind Factitious Disorder

Factitious disorder (FD) imposed on self is one of the most challenging and controversial problems in medicine. It is characterized by falsified medical or psychiatric symptoms where patients misrepresent, simulate, or cause symptoms of an illness in the absence of obvious tangible gains. Munchausen...

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Autores principales: Sinha, Akriti, Smolik, Trenton
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7872498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33585147
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13243