2007-05-25 10:00:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
You could say that, I work in an Emergency room and sometimes all people need is for a doctor to tell them they are fine and then they feel better.
2007-05-25 10:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it is. The mind has a lot of control over the body, and just the expectation of results has been shown to improve people's conditions. When going to the doctor people expect they will feel better when they leave, so their mind makes it so.
I am not saying the medications and therapies don't do anything (I am currently training to be a doctor), but there is a placebo component to everything. Many alternative therapies depend soley on the power of suggestion to elicit there benefits.(Reiki, reflexology, hypnotism)
That prior answer is a poor example, the use of placebos outside a study in which the patient has given consent is considered unethical.
2007-05-25 12:15:14 · answer #2 · answered by Troy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has been described, that the single fact, of talking to a confident doctor,has a placebo effect per se...so yes, it is true, very especially if you have developed empathy and are heard carefully in the first interview...there is a placebo effect....You are right.
You will feel that before you take any pill, or injection, etc,,,you are already feeling better....that is a good sign of medical- patient interrelationship,,,,
2007-05-28 16:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by Sehr_Klug 50 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A doctor who interrogates a patient for more than 15 minutes is already administering a placebo apart from drugs prescribed. In psychiatric practice,Homoeopathy ,and Counseling , many patients got well while still waiting for an appointment.
2007-05-25 21:29:30 · answer #4 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it makes you feel better, then it's basically the same. It's like the doctor gives you a pain pill for a migraine, only it's not really a pain pill, just a "placebo", but you don't know that, but thinking it is really a pain pill, makes you feel better.
2007-05-25 11:03:58 · answer #5 · answered by missvickisue 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is absolutely true. 90% of the things you go to a doctor for get well on their own anyway. Of the remaining 10%, they can't do anything about 9%. So about 1% of the time you go to a doctor and he cures you of the disease you came with. And the chances are he's a surgeon :)
2007-05-26 05:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by Vinay K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I always feel my best just before I open the door and enter the office!
:)
2007-05-25 14:19:03 · answer #7 · answered by lostagain1701 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50% of the time yes.
2007-05-26 05:40:55 · answer #8 · answered by kenneth h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not if you really need his services, huh?
2007-05-29 01:27:02 · answer #9 · answered by Debbie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋