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From: [email protected] (Daniel Prince)
Subject: Placebo effects
I know that the placebo effect is where a patient feels better or
even gets better because of his/her belief in the medicine and
the doctor administering it. Is there also an anti-placebo
effect where the patient dislikes/distrusts doctors and medicine
and therefore doesn't get better or feel better in spite of the
medicine?
Is there an effect where the doctor believes so strongly in a
medicine that he/she sees improvement where the is none or sees
more improvement than there is? If so, what is this effect
called? Is there a reverse of the above effect where the doctor
doesn't believe in a medicine and then sees less improvement than
there is? What would this effect be called? Have these effects
ever been studied? How common are these effects? Thank you in
advance for all replies.
... Information is very valuable but dis-information is MUCH more common.