Psychiatry - I Want an Easy Patient or I Want a Good Patient

The noblest thing a psychiatrist can do now is help the sickest patients, he says. "I always, wherever I work, would feel the hairs on my neck go up" Psychiatrists who gravitate toward easy patients get best results because placebo response rate for easy patients is enormous and you don't have to do anything that makes a difference. The more severely ill the person is, the placebo response rate starts reducing to zero.