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Placebo Effect articles

Placebo or Platitude?
A patient says to his surgeon, "Hey, doc, the knee feels great. The surgery was a success." The doctor replies, "Glad to hear it. Though I ought to tell you, you never had surgery. We only pretended you did to study the placebo effect."