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The Placebo Chronicles

Author : Douglas Farrago, M.D.
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307489590
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Chronicles written by Douglas Farrago, M.D. and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache. Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession revealed by the irreverent Dr. Douglas Farrago in his popular satirical magazine, Placebo Journal—affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as “Mad magazine for doctors” and called, by U.S. News.com, “raunchy, adolescent, and very funny.” Now, in The Placebo Chronicles, Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and uproarious true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country. Submitted by actual physicians, these are the stories they tell each other at cocktail parties and in doctors’ lounges, trading sidesplitting and truly unusual tales of their most embarrassing medical moments, the grossest things they’ve ever seen in medicine, their favorite Munchausen patients, and much more, including “The X-Ray Files”—mind-boggling anecdotes and images of the oddest foreign objects doctors have removed from patients. Not for the faint of heart, the humor in The Placebo Chronicles is brutally funny—just what the doctor ordered to guard against the ill effects of an M.D.’s worst enemies: the Medical Axis of Evil, a.k.a. drug companies, HMOs, and malpractice insurers. Fully illustrated with fake advertisements—for pseudopharmaceuticals like OxyCotton Candy and Indifferex (the mediocre antidepressant)—this refreshingly honest collection invites doctors and patients alike to share the laughter, a liberal dose of the very best medicine.

The Placebo Effect

Author : David Rotenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476746915
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Effect written by David Rotenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first action-packed novel in The Junction Chronicles, professor and acting coach Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth—that turns into deadly curse. For years Decker’s rare sensory ability to discern the truth proved to be a lucrative sideline to his acting teaching. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his "synesthete" identity secret from the companies that pay him to tell them if the people they are planning to hire are truthful. But Decker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart. His house burns down, his credit cards are cancelled, his bank loan is called and his studio is condemned. He realizes that he must have heard something in one of his truth-telling sessions that someone didn’t want him to know. Decker has to go on the run and figure out why he’s been targeted. There’s also a government agent hunting him who seems to know absolutely everything about Decker Roberts’ identities, real and false—and other people of “his kind.” How will Decker find out which truth was endangering his life? Who betrayed him and revealed all his secrets? Decker needs to find answers quickly, before knowing the truth turns from a gift into a deadly curse.

Placebo

Author : Dylan Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195220544
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Placebo written by Dylan Evans and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we really cure ourselves of disease by the power of thought alone? Faith healers and alternative therapists are convinced that we can, but what does science say? Contrary to public perception, orthodox medical opinion is remarkably confident about the healing powers of the mind. For the past fifty years, doctors have been taught that placebos such as sugar pills and water injections can relieve virtually any kind of medical condition. Yet placebos only work if you believe they work, so the medical confidence in the power of the placebo effect has provided scientific legitimacy to popular claims about the healing power of the mind. In this intriguing exploration, Dylan Evans exposes the flaws in the scientific research into the placebo effect and reveals the limits of what can and cannot be cured by thought alone. Drawing on new ideas in immunology and evolutionary biology, Evans proposes a new theory about how placebos work, and asks some searching questions about our concepts of health and disease

The Placebo Effect

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Effect written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a review of the role of placebos in the history of medicine, this book investigates the current surge of interest in placebos, and probes the methodological difficulties of saying scientifically just what placebos can and cannot do.

The Powerful Placebo

Author : Arthur K. Shapiro
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801866758
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Powerful Placebo written by Arthur K. Shapiro and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Powerful Placebo" discusses the placebo effect over the centuries, reminding the reader how complex the issue is, from the very definition of a placebo and the success of dubious or fraudulent remedies to the modern worship of placebos as controls in clinical trials. The authors assert that "until recently, the history of medical treatment was essentially the history of placebo effect".

The Placebo

Author : Franklin G. Miller
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140866X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Placebo written by Franklin G. Miller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough collection of classic and contemporary resources about the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a fascinating but elusive phenomena. Although no standard definition of the placebo effect exists, it is generally understood as consisting of responses of individuals to the psychosocial context of medical treatments or clinical encounters, as distinct from specific physiological effects of medical interventions. The Placebo is the first book to compile a selection of classic and contemporary published articles on the topic. Systematic investigation of the placebo effect emerged in the 1950s in response to the development of randomized controlled clinical trials that used “inert” placebo interventions as a pivotal element of scientific evaluation of novel drugs. In recent years, scientific and scholarly investigation of the placebo effect has increased dramatically, reflecting a growing interest in the connection between mind and body with respect to health, the development of brain imaging techniques, dissatisfaction with the reductionist and technological orientation of biomedicine, and growing attention to the use of complementary and alternative medical treatments. The Placebo is organized into three sections: the nature and significance of the placebo effect, experimental studies of the placebo effect, and ethical issues of placebos in research and in clinical practice. This comprehensive sourcebook will be invaluable to investigators and scholars alike.

The Pain Chronicles

Author : Melanie Thernstrom
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429979453
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Pain Chronicles written by Melanie Thernstrom and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated scientific dogmas that prevent proper treatment, to devastating effect. In The Pain Chronicles, a singular and deeply humane work, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the ages—from ancient Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern brain imaging—to reveal the elusive, mysterious nature of pain itself. Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines—science, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and art—Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear. Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration, The Pain Chronicles illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of pain—and confronts with extraordinary grace and empathy its peculiar traits, its harrowing effects, and its various antidotes.

Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine

Author : Pekka Louhiala
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030273296
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine written by Pekka Louhiala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion. Everybody knows something about placebos and placebo effects. If, however, people are asked to define the concepts, the spectrum becomes wide. Does 'placebo' refer to an inert treatment or does it cover all elements of the patient-physician-interaction except for pharmacological or other physiological mechanisms? Furthermore, if, by definition, a placebo has no effect, what sense does it make to talk about a 'placebo effect'? Even in scientific literature the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’ are used in many senses and often in a confusing way. While this book discusses many issues which keep puzzling physicians, it also covers the historical developments of the concepts of placebo and placebo effect as well as the conceptual confusion in the definitions. This book is intended for physicians, philosophers, psychologists and any other people interested in placebos, placebo effects and the physician-patient relationship.

The Placebo Effect in Healing

Author : Michael Jospe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780669016116
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Effect in Healing written by Michael Jospe and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will examine critically and attempt not only to integrate experimental investigations of the placebo effect in both medicine and psychotherapy, but also to account theoretically for its modus operandi. -- from Introduction.

PLACEBO.

Author : LAWRENCE. DURRELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992863289
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book PLACEBO. written by LAWRENCE. DURRELL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Official Guide to Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice

Author : Debra Farrago M. Ed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692681374
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Official Guide to Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice written by Debra Farrago M. Ed and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Farrago MD uses the insights he has learned from twenty years of being a family physician, his vast connection to DPC docs from around the country and his own odyssey into Direct Primary Care that he used to create an incredibly successful practice in the central Virginia area. He teaches you the secrets you need to know to fill your practice as well as laying the groundwork into making your office great so patients are clamoring to get in.

Diary of a Drug Rep

Author : Douglas Farrago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692854204
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Drug Rep written by Douglas Farrago and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the year 2000, pharmaceutical companies were spending more than $15 billion dollars a year on promoting prescription drugs in the United States. It was not uncommon to see doctors going to extravagant dinners, amusement parks and golfing events, all sponsored by these companies and all orchestrated by what are called drug reps. In 2002, Douglas Farrago first pieced together a fictionalized, diary-like version of this tale, which spread virally on the Internet and became an instant hit, especially with drug reps. Initially called Diary of a Pharmaceutical Representative (Drug Rep), it was reproduced first in Dr. Farrago's humorous medical magazine called the Placebo Journal and then in his book The Placebo Chronicles. It even inspired a 2005 NY Times article called "Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales". In Diary of a Drug Rep, Dr. Farrago has expanded this initial vignette, giving the reader a unique look into how drug reps lived, worked and "sold" their products in their heyday. The intent of this book is not to belittle this profession, but rather to understand it and, ok yes, laugh at it a little. Diary of a Drug Rep will give readers insight into a very peculiar profession that affects us all more than we even know. "I loved this book. The best way to process some of the crazy things that happened, and continue to happen, in healthcare is to laugh - otherwise we just might have to cry. Diary of a Drug Rep had me howling at times and thinking "that's funny cuz it's true," and you just may learn some truths about life and business too." ZDoggMD (Zubin Damania MD), writer, medical parody singer

Placebo Effects

Author : Fabrizio Benedetti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192581155
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Placebo Effects written by Fabrizio Benedetti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most widely used terms in medicine are 'placebo' and placebo effect, even though it is not always clear what exactly they mean. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. We now know that this is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes place in the patient's brain and that is capable of influencing both the course of a disease and the response to a therapy. Placebo Effects (3e) is a significantly updated and expanded new edition of a highly successful and critically acclaimed textbook on placebos. It is the first book to emphasize that there are many placebo effects and reviews them critically in different medical conditions, such as neurological and psychiatric disorders, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, immune and hormonal responses, as well as oncology, surgery, sports medicine and acupuncture. In addition, it looks at the psychosocial context, which is considered crucial to the placebo effect. For example what the doctor says to the patient, as well as their attitude, can greatly influence the placebo effect. Exhaustive in its coverage, and written by a world authority in the field, this is the definitive reference textbook on the placebo effect - one that is essential for researchers and clinicians across a wide range of medical specialities.

Placebo Talks

Author : Amir Raz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199680701
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Placebo Talks written by Amir Raz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking and suggestion - play a role in forming placebo responses and placebo effects.

Fanny Says

Author : Nickole Brown
Publisher : BOA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781938160578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Fanny Says written by Nickole Brown and published by BOA Editions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.

You Are the Placebo

Author : Dr. Joe Dispenza
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401944590
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book You Are the Placebo written by Dr. Joe Dispenza and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to heal by thought alone—without drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse—or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs. “In his paradigm-altering book, You Are the Placebo, Dr. Joe Dispenza catapults us beyond thinking of the placebo effect as an anomaly. Through 12 concise chapters that read like a true-life scientific thriller, Dispenza gives us rock-solid reasons to accept the game-changer of our lives: that the placebo effect is actually us, proving to ourselves the greatest possibilities of healing, miracles, and longevity! I love this book and look forward to a world where the secret of the placebo is the foundation of everyday life.” — Gregg Braden, New York Times best-selling author of Deep Truth and The Divine Matrix Chapters Include: Foreward by Dawson Church, Ph.D. Part I. Is It Possible? A Brief History of the Placebo The Placebo Effect in the Brain The Placebo Effect in the Body How Thoughts Change the Brain and the Body Suggestibility Attitudes, Beliefs, and Perceptions The Quantum Mind Three Stories of Personal Transformation Information to Transformation: Proof That You Are the Placebo Part II: Transformation Meditation Preparation Changing Beliefs and Perceptions Meditation Becoming Supernatural Dr. Joe does more than simply explore the history and the physiology of the placebo effect. He asks the question: "Is it possible to teach the principles of the placebo, and without relying on any external substance, produce the same internal changes in a person’s health and ultimately in his or her life?" Then he shares scientific evidence (including color brain scans) of amazing healings from his workshops, in which participants learn his consciousness shifting model of personal transformation, based on practical applications of the so-called placebo effect. The book ends with a "how-to" calming meditation for changing limiting beliefs and mental perceptions that hold us back—the first step in healing. You Are the Placebo combines the latest research in neuroscience, biology, psychology, hypnosis, behavioral conditioning, and quantum physics to demystify the workings of the placebo effect . . . and show how the seemingly impossible can become possible. “I discovered that if I could teach people the scientific model of transformation (bringing in a little quantum physics to help them understand the science of possibility); combine it with the latest information in neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, epigenetics, and psychoneuroimmunology; give them the right kind of instruction; and provide the opportunity to apply that information, then they would experience a transformation... This book is about: empowering you to realize that you have all the biological and neurological machinery to do exactly that. My goal is to demystify these concepts with the new science of the way things really are so that it is within the reach of more people to change their internal states in order to create positive changes in their health and in their external world.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza

The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing

Author : Richard Kradin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135913102
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing written by Richard Kradin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and encoded procedural memories and imaginal fantasies. This book contributes therapeutic effects, varies in potency, and exhibits its own pathologies.