Word: amas
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...Ama R. Francis
...emerges from a ruined structure that’s simply the site onto which Usher projects his sexual fantasy. So he isn’t actually working for the CIA, just engaging in some auto-erotic pleasure. Some people buy toys. Usher plays with videos. —Ama R. Francis
...patients by claiming a placebo was medication. But more commonly, the physicians came up with creative ways to explain, saying the substance might help but wouldn't hurt, or that "this may help you but I'm not sure how it works." For its part, the American Medical Association (AMA), the largest association of U.S. doctors and medical students, tells its members that "[p]hysicians may use placebos for diagnosis or treatment only if the patient is informed of and agrees...
...wouldn't disclosure drain the power from a placebo? Not necessarily, according to the AMA. Once physicians have been given general permission to use placebos, the AMA's guidelines say, they don't need identify to their patients which treatments are true medical interventions and which are not: "In this way the physician respects the patient's autonomy and fosters a trusting relationship, while the patient still may benefit from the placebo effect." It's still not clear how many doctors prescribe placebos. The current Chicago survey is the first U.S. survey of its kind this century...
...AMA guidelines are an attempt to reconcile what is best for the patient - providing treatment that may help - and what is ethically upright. They also reveal a fundamental change in the way modern scientists view the relationship between mind and body. In 1979, a similar survey of American doctors found that 60% of respondents believed that using placebos was a good way to deduce whether a patient had a "real" problem or was just faking it. In the current study, 80% of doctors disagreed with that statement. "That's a significant shift in doctors' thinking in a relatively short time...