placebo effect

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any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs

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The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment. Ben Goldacre

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect. Irving Kirsch

Another critic has argued that academic proponents of integrative medicine sometimes recommend misleading patients by using known placebo treatments in order to achieve a placebo effect. Source: Internet

Benefits may result because of the natural progression of the illness, rarely but regularly occurring spontaneous remission or through the placebo effect." Source: Internet

And evidence-based medicine thinkers and skeptics view the results of studies as suggestive of nothing more than acupuncture’s potent placebo effect. Source: Internet

A physician who can support the body’s natural healing ability, which is one way of describing the placebo effect, is a far superior physician in my book to the one who relies on comparatively crude methods like drugs and surgery. Source: Internet

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