Placebo Effect [View all]
I just posted this in Health, and decided to cross post here because I think a lot of you will find this article about the placebo effect highly interesting. Finally I see an article about the placebo effect that actually "gets it", from the Wall Street Journal, no less.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1142688
By the way, in a somewhat related note, my daughter reminded me that several years ago she had a urinary tract infection that antibiotics was barely touching. She continued to have symptoms, and her urologist gave her condition some sort of label and wanted to do all sorts of additional testing. Her ND, who usually didn't do this kind of work, finally determined that she was "PISSED OFF". Once she dealt with being pissed off (clearing by the ND), her urinary tract symptoms completely disappeared. That is one reason she is so devoted to her ND, though he rarely does that kind of stuff, generally outsourcing it.
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