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...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...
...everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell our neighbor's toilet from our living room--but I swear I would go back there this minute," she says wistfully. "If we had hope of some kind of life in Baghdad, I would walk all the way." Adnan, a physician, feels the tug of home too, but he keeps a check on his emotions. "If we had hope ..." he repeats after his wife. "But do we have hope...
Likewise, 45 percent admitted to not reporting a physician who they knew to be impaired or incompetent...
...With a teacher for a mom and a physician's assistant for a dad, Matthew North had two experts on the case from birth, but his problems baffled them both. "Everything was hard for Matthew," says Theresa North, of Highland Ranch, Colo. He didn't speak until he was 3. In school, he'd hide under a desk to escape noise and activity. He couldn't coordinate his limbs well enough to catch a big beach ball...
...Gatorade now comes in many flavors, but its first may have been best described by its inventor, University of Florida physician J. Robert Cade: repulsive. ("I guzzled it and vomited," he said.) Cade created the drink, today a multibillion-dollar industry, after the school's football coach asked him why players didn't urinate after games. With the help of sugar and lemon, Cade made the concoction more palatable, but its basic function didn't change: to replace the sodium, chloride and plasma volume that players lost during games. The still dominant sports ade, named for the team, earned...