I was dead tired last night and caught a glimpse of the subject matter for this movie. So instead of going to bed at 330, i went to bed at 5 in the morning. :)
It was truly a great movie. Especially due to the fact that Munchausen sydrome by proxy is hard to prove.
Kudos.....
I'm a former Pediatric Nurse, and we once had a case back in the 80s that all the Nurses thought was Munchausen's but the doctors told us we didn't know what we were talking about.
The child had severe developmental delays and probable chromosome damage. He was blind, deaf, and had seizures. About once a month, his mother would bring him in with exacerbation of seizures. His med levels were zero-mom said that was because he couldn't keep his meds down. Strangely, he never had problems with vomiting in the hospital, and also never had any seizures.
The hospital was literally this mother's social system. She was on a first name basis with the administrator, kept a typewriter in her child's room and was always firing off letters to him. Most of us thought she was creepy and didn't trust her, but she had a few key people in her corner.
We would get his levels stabilized, send him home and soon he would be back. This went on for a few years, until the day that his mom misjudged the timing and he came in DOA.
That was when some of the doctors admitted that we were probably right all along.