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53rd Annual Meeting Program Schedule
Clinical Case Conference 6 - When Child Abuse Professionals Are Targeted: The Special Case of Munchausen by Proxy

Saturday, October 28
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (open)

Herbert A. Schreier, M.D., Brenda Bursch, Ph.D., Julie J. Gregory

This Clinical Case Conference describes the care required to make the diagnosis and the barriers to making the diagnosis of Munchausen by Proxy. It discusses the problems doctors and patients encounter because of the disbelief Munchausen by Proxy engenders. Julie Gregory is an articulate survivor of Munchausen by Proxy whose detailed and compelling account of her experience was published as the book Sickened.