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1 posted on 02/17/2010 8:55:22 AM PST by JoeProBono
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It was all very tragic – and it was also a hoax. Police investigated her claims and soon her story unraveled when the hospitals she claimed to have visited had no record of her. Leone eventually admitted that she had pretended to be sick for over three years.

How could the hospitals disclose that information? What about patients' privacy rights?

We can't even see the President of the United States' birth certificate.

Who were these cancer deniers?

2 posted on 02/17/2010 8:59:00 AM PST by a fool in paradise (DON'T SAY "Happy Valentines' Day". It's Happy Holidays! This is the Holiday Season (Prez Day Feb15))
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“Munchausen syndrome” and “Munchausen syndrome by proxy,” where a parent claims that their child is ill.


3 posted on 02/17/2010 8:59:16 AM PST by iowamark
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For a gift certificate at Hair Team for Men?


6 posted on 02/17/2010 9:06:57 AM PST by earlJam
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My teenage daughter HAD a friend that supposedly had some kind of terminal cancer. At first we were sympathetic but after a short while somewhat suspicious because of the lack of symptoms. Her friend would use the cancer thing for major sympathy and CONTROL as far as using it as an excuse to get out of doing what she didn’t want to do. She used the whole “remission” thing as an excuse as to why she didn’t appear sick.

My daughter broke off the relationship after a year or so (due to a lot of factors) and now (2 years later) we hear her friend is pregnant and going to get married. Kinda’ sad that she had to resort to that kind of manipulation of her friendships.


7 posted on 02/17/2010 9:11:00 AM PST by copaliscrossing (Progressives are Socialists)
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“She was recently indicted on charges of theft and conspiracy”

Just curious here... How do they get to “theft”? Think about it. Accepting donations (albeit under false preteneses) is not exactly therft per-se, is it?


9 posted on 02/17/2010 9:27:31 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
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It's called Münchausen by Internet.

A little more about this disorder.
10 posted on 02/17/2010 9:31:25 AM PST by mysterio
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I’m gonna have cancer tonight!
(stole it from Walter)


11 posted on 02/17/2010 9:50:48 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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"The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom; I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a dead lock, but, uh... you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. That's worse than school. You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and wailing, you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school."

14 posted on 02/17/2010 10:13:22 AM PST by dfwgator
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They organized a fundraising 5K run in her name, and raised about $50,000, which she reportedly spent on a new car and breast implants.

The car and breasts only cost $40,000. She wasted the rest.

17 posted on 02/17/2010 10:37:07 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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