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Published 7 years ago by sjvn with 2 Comments
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Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo

The rituals -- fasting, wearing a hospital gown, undergoing anesthesia -- foster an expectation that the procedure will provide relief.

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  • Gozzin
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    That was interesting.

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  • kxh
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    Medicine insists on double blind trials for drugs and for competing modalities. It's much harder to impossible to do that for surgery.

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