When people fake their own medical problems in order to gain attention and sympathy from medical professionals, they would be diagnosed with

a. Munchausen syndrome.
b. Prader-Willi syndrome.
c. Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
d. a conversion disorder.


ANSWER: a

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