Word: lesions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Selection. He had flown to New York the previous night (he neither confirmed nor denied using the incognito "Howard Roberts") to consult specialists. X rays had picked out a shadow on his left hip bone. The doctors had described it as a lesion, and "that's all I got out of them." He had first noticed a great weariness when he started "whaling golf balls" early last spring...
What makes the Elsies hard to spot is the fact that their pretended symptoms are generally rooted in some real lesion from the past. Two almost certain signs of the Munchausen syndrome: an abdomen full of scars and a handbag stuffed with hospital attendance records...