Great find-reminder of an old unconventional colleague from an old forlorn misty time and thank you, my dear Judy, for this summary of his work "We have to transform the art of medicine into the science of care."Kaptchuk's research helps explain why doctors often think they have found a breakthrough treatment, only to find to their embarrassment years later that a placebo pill or other sham treatment works just as well. here
"The Placebo Phenomenon" Harvard Magazine in pdf format to download http://g.virbcdn.com/_f/files/71/FileItem-274887-HarvardMagazineJanuary2\ 013.pdf <http://g.virbcdn.com/_f/files/71/FileItem-274887-HarvardMagazineJanuary\ 2013.pdf> Big pharma looks to ancient China for new cures http://tinyurl.com/b6gardo http://tinyurl.com/bjodswc Kaptchuk, 62, has a college degree in religious studies from Columbia University and is one of the few Harvard medical professors without a Western graduate degree. [http://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/assets/HarvardMedicine/2011_\ Spring/Bench_3.jpg] and now check this list of publication at PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=Kaptchuk+TJ\ [au] <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=Kaptchuk+T\ J[au]> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Good article in Harvard Magazine on the very latest in > placebo-related research, profiling a researcher at > Harvard Medical School who is studying (among other > aspects) the neural mechanisms of the placebo effect in > both patients *and* physicians (research on the latter, > which is still in process, has never been done before): (c&p from that article) "imaging the brains of physicians while they treat patients—a side of the treatment equation that no one had previously examined. (The researchers constructed an elaborate set-up in which the doctors lay in fMRI machines specially equipped to enable them both to see their patients outside the machine and administer what they thought was a nerve-stimulating treatment.) "Doctors give subtle cues to their patients that neither may be aware of," Kaptchuk explains. "They are a key ingredient in the ritual of medicine."lol > > http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-placebo-phenomenon >
