Why People Fake Illness Online
Check out Joel's Health Report podcast: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/munchausen-by-internet/7585358 When illness goes viral, Munchausen by Internet may be the...
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So Dana Dirr was a pretty amazing woman. Mother of eleven children, Dana was also a trauma surgeon at a Canadian hospital. But, the night before Mother's Day, tragedy struck. She was hit by a drunk driver. And worse – she was pregnant at the time. Dana was rushed to hospital, and gave birth, but died soon after. To make matters even worse, one of the children she left behind, a seven-year-old boy, had cancer. He was pretty close to death, and his family had been blogging about his struggles for years. After Dana’s death, her husband JS, a Canadian Mountie, went on Facebook and wrote this unbelievably beautiful post about his dead wife. That post went viral on Facebook. What a shame it was entirely made up. Okay, I think you need to elaborate a lit...
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So Dana Dirr was a pretty amazing woman. Mother of eleven children, Dana was also a trauma surgeon at a Canadian hospital. But, the night before Mother's Day, tragedy struck. She was hit by a drunk driver. And worse – she was pregnant at the time. Dana was rushed to hospital, and gave birth, but died soon after. To make matters even worse, one of the children she left behind, a seven-year-old boy, had cancer. He was pretty close to death, and his family had been blogging about his struggles for years. After Dana’s death, her husband JS, a Canadian Mountie, went on Facebook and wrote this unbelievably beautiful post about his dead wife. That post went viral on Facebook. What a shame it was entirely made up. Okay, I think you need to elaborate a lit...
