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From: [email protected] (ron roth)
Subject: Selective Placebo
From: [email protected] (Ella I Baff) writes:
JB> RR> "I don't doubt that the placebo effect is alive and well with
JB> RR> EVERY medical modality - estimated by some to be around 20+%,
JB> RR> but why would it be higher with alternative versus conventional
JB> RR> medicine?"
JB>
JB> Because most the the time, closer to 90% in my experience, there is no
JB> substance to the 'alternative' intervention beyond the good intentions of the
JB> practitioner, which in itself is quite therapeutic. [.......]
JB>
JB> John Badanes, DC, CA
JB> [email protected]
Well, if that's the case in YOUR practice, I have a hard time
figuring out how you even managed to make it into the bottom half
of your class, or did you create your diplomas with crayons?
If someone runs a medical practice with only a 10% success rate,
they either tackle problems for which they are not qualified to
treat, or they have no conscience and are only in business for
fraudulent purposes.
OTOH, who are we kidding, the New England Medical Journal in 1984
ran the heading: "Ninety Percent of Diseases are not Treatable by
Drugs or Surgery," which has been echoed by several other reports.
No wonder MDs are not amused with alternative medicine, since
the 20% magic of the "placebo effect" would award alternative
practitioners twice the success rate of conventional medicine...
--Ron--
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