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How the Internet Changed Healthcare w/ Medlife Crisis

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The Ethics of Reiki and the Placebo Effect

I try and actually use the placebo effects in my own practice even though I'm using evidence-based medicine you can still maximize the placebo effect on top. This is where there's a really ethical sort of quandary because I can't lie to a patient that is fundamentally against the duties of a doctor but alternative medicine practitioner can say green juice is going to work it's fantastic. There are some fascinating trials that have looked into this where they have given morphine to patients who areyou know in pain post-operative or something but then haven't told them how much better they feel. They had the nurse come in and injected and make a whole kind of sort of procedure and make a ritual

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