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A 25-year-old man is admitted to the hospital after coming to the doctor carrying a bottle containing bloody urine. All tests were negative, and he was observed stealing a test tube of blood from the laboratory technician's cart. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
(A) antisocial personality disorder
(B) factitious disorder
(C) malingering
(D) schizophrenia
(E) somatization disorder
sadly the answer is factitious disorder.
The qbank said that the patient manipulates the test but it is not written why he did it, so that is why it is factitious disorder cos nobody knows the reason why he did it.
But if it is written that the patient manipulated the test for secondary gain for example so as not to be deployed to a war zone, then it is malingering
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