a. A substance containing no medication and prescribed or given to reinforce a patient's expectation to get well.
Placebos don't seem all that important but that isn't that case at all. When someone is diagnosed with lets say a form of incurable cancer there is no medication that will fix or cure this illness, so doctors will use a placebo. Now more then ever doctors will use what is called a sugar pill(useless) and tell the infected that he/she will be better in no time at all. Doctors do this to fool or trick the brain into thinking it is being helped out. the brain receives "motivation" and begins to heal itself.
Recent studies show this method being used more in the past decade.
Pros and Cons
Pros-people that might very well die from certain illnesses may survive of hope,
Cons-the hope is false and doesn't always work so that is a problem, when dying being lied to isn't the best thing ever.
Impact-less deaths from incurable illness.
Placebos don't seem all that important but that isn't that case at all. When someone is diagnosed with lets say a form of incurable cancer there is no medication that will fix or cure this illness, so doctors will use a placebo. Now more then ever doctors will use what is called a sugar pill(useless) and tell the infected that he/she will be better in no time at all. Doctors do this to fool or trick the brain into thinking it is being helped out. the brain receives "motivation" and begins to heal itself.
Recent studies show this method being used more in the past decade.
Pros and Cons
Pros-people that might very well die from certain illnesses may survive of hope,
Cons-the hope is false and doesn't always work so that is a problem, when dying being lied to isn't the best thing ever.
Impact-less deaths from incurable illness.
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