Description Repeated fabricatio...
Description
Repeated fabrication of symptoms and complaints that mimic disease for the purpose of gaining medical attention. Many patients wander from hospital to hospital feigning acute medical or surgical illness and give false information about their medical and social background for no apparent reason other than to gain attention. These patients can experience significant adverse effects from the medical tests and surgical procedures performed.
Symptoms
Multiple physical complaints, multiple different presentations to different medical facilities, frequent changing of physicians.
Tests
Common tests used for diagnosis and treatment
Workup:
A history and physical exam will be performed. A review of a patient's medical history will reveal an inordinate amount of medical testing with no diagnosis ever confirmed.
Specialists:
Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Family Practice, Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry
Workup:
A history and physical exam will be performed. A review of a patient's medical history will reveal an inordinate amount of medical testing with no diagnosis ever confirmed.
Specialists:
Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Family Practice, Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry
Treatment
Once confronted with the diagnosis, patients almost always move on to another health care setting. Ideally, they might benefit from long term psychologic and psychiatric therapy.