You’ve Heard of Placebo. But What About the Nocebo Effect?

I ran across a quite good article the other day entitled A Powerful Tool in the Doctor’s Toolkit written by Dr. Danielle Ofri. It was about how the placebo effect is underappreciated in medicine. Far from being an esoteric “Gee-Whiz!” phenomenon, the placebo effect and its counterpart, the nocebo effect, are things we can use to our advantage in almost every clinical encounter.images-1 Continue reading