Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Pupils

  • Munchausen by Proxy

    Charles Halsted Davis, California, United States   My last patient of the morning was a teenage girl, just turned eighteen. She walked in slowly, her face in agony, apprehensive. Her mother said the pain had begun at age twelve, about when she started to menstruate, yet it never let up, periods or not. Refusing food,…