Medical Child Abuse is Common

Not only am I a child of Munchausens by Proxy many of my elderly friends in their 80's and 90's have been too.

The term “medical child abuse” dates from the mid-1990s, as a condition related to Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disturbance in which a parent induces illness in a child to get attention. It has caught on with doctors over the last decade. But what constitutes “unnecessary medical care”?
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