In psychiatry, we've thankfully replaced the term "Munchausen syndrome by proxy" with the much more accurate "medical child abuse." Parents hurting children by

In psychiatry, we've thankfully replaced the term "Munchausen syndrome by proxy" with the much more accurate "medical child abuse." Parents hurting children by creating medical illness is an important problem to monitor for--not a medical disease. I'm not sure recruiters are that malignant. But understanding their role, their incentives, and what you can rationally do about this is an important discussion.