Sam Had Been Sick Since He Was a Young Child

Sam had been sick since he was a young child. He was rushed to the hospital by his desperately concerned mother. Although his mother was praised by the hospital personnel for her attentiveness, the doctors discovered that the mother had been injecting her son with 7-up to make him sick so she could get attention and sympathy from medical personnel and be considered a "concerned, devoted" mother. Sam's mother would most likely be diagnosed with

A) Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
B) an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) Prader-Willis syndrome.
D) a conversion disorder.

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