Thank you! I’ve been saying that for decades, we should marvel at the placebo effect and develop huge research on it! Stop ridiculing it, it is a source of tremendous empowerment and sanity (given the distortions being paraded in the pharmaco-medical industry). I am so glad that you received the wisdom of « the doctor is the treatment ». I wish that was a second tenet of medical ethics: 1) do no harm ; 2) always remember you are a BIG part of the treatment (and thus a whole course - yearlong perhaps - on supportive bedside behaviours and skills and attitudes, as well as a whole course on self care for MDs!
Thank you! I’ve been saying that for decades, we should marvel at the placebo effect and develop huge research on it! Stop ridiculing it, it is a source of tremendous empowerment and sanity (given the distortions being paraded in the pharmaco-medical industry). I am so glad that you received the wisdom of « the doctor is the treatment ». I wish that was a second tenet of medical ethics: 1) do no harm ; 2) always remember you are a BIG part of the treatment (and thus a whole course - yearlong perhaps - on supportive bedside behaviours and skills and attitudes, as well as a whole course on self care for MDs!