num_pages: 294
description: Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick we gained sympathy care and attention and were excused from our responsibilities. Though doing so on occasion is considered normal there are those who carry their deceptions to the extreme. In this book Dr. Marc Feldman describes peoples strange motivations to fabricate or induce illness or injury to satisfy deep emotional needs. Doctors family members and friends are lured into a costly frustrating and potentially deadly web of deceit. From the mother who shaves her childs head and tells her community he has cancer to the co-worker who suffers from a string of incomprehensible tragedies to the false epilepsy victim who monopolizes her online support group disease forgery is ever-present in the media and in many peoples lives. In Dying to be Ill : True Stories of Medical Deception  Dr. Feldman with the assistance of Gregory Yates has chronicled this fascinating world as well as the paths to healing. With insight developed from 25 years of hands-on experience Dying to be Ill is sure to stand as a classic in the field.
language: English
title: Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception
publisher: Routledge