re: Anybody know someone with Munchausen by proxy?

Sadly, the chance that you'd see someone you know get busted for or diagnosed with this are slim.

This is the mental illness very morbidly depicted in the movie The Sixth Sense. It is very real, and goes beyond attention seeking. It is almost exclusively female, and also has a lot to do with the primal need to nurture and care for something as they did when they had helpless babies to care for.