Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Thursday, May 13, 2010

The placebo effect


The magic cure

"Startled by the power of placebos, doctors consider how to use them as real treatment"
I say more power to them. It's been long known that the placebo effect is real, and that all illnesses have some sort of psychological component. The body may well be tricked into defending itself against illness, as well. It doesn't mean that a person is mentally ill or anything. (As long as the pharmaceutical companies don't start getting in on the placebo 'sugar pill' drug patent to continue making obscene profits off the backs of those least able to afford the prices...)


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