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11/29/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

The placebo effect of surgery: New evidence shows many operations, such as getting a stent for angina, to have low benefit and high risk

You’ve probably heard of the placebo effect: Someone reports feeling better after taking a pill that is said to help some condition or other, only to later discover the pill did not contain any active ingredients at all. The person’s physical health didn’t change; feeling better was all in their mind. It’s always an interesting […]

10/30/2017 / By JD Heyes

God complex: Inept doctors mocked Lyme’s disease patient because they didn’t understand what they were seeing… until she needed open heart surgery

Sometimes the traditional medical community is so zoned in on certain treatments and conditions they miss the big picture, and usually to the patient’s detriment. That’s what happened big-time recently when doctors in England misdiagnosed a patient with Lyme disease. As reported by the U.K.’s Daily Mail, a hair stylist who became bedridden with the […]

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