India M. Clamp’s Reviews > The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy > Status Update

This book explores the topic of parents seeking unneeded medical care for their children. The condition is “Muchhausen by proxy” (MBPS) which is a parent who orchestrates in their child a condition warranting invasive medical attention or makes a false claim such a condition exists. Another term to describe it FDIA "Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another," which is deemed medical child abuse.