Placebo Effect
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The activity I chose to write about was on Dr. Walter A. Brown’s article in Scientific American about placebos and their effect on the patients. His article described what a placebo is and if it is ethical for doctors to prescribe this “treatment” to their patients.
Dr. Brown, wh ....
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.... Only the experimenters know who gets what. What this supposedly does is that the patient will mentally think that the doctor is giving him/her the real drug and they will
soon be feeling better. When in reality, it is themselves, not the medicine, which makes them feel better. These are the findings of Dr. Brown.
In his experiments on the placebos, he found that the placebo can make a
person feel better, but it can also have no effect what-so-ever. In his study of the depressed patients, ....
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