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.75 CE (with .25 pharm)
Learning Objectives:
Open label placebos are effective as deceptive placebos: we do not need to pretend or deceive
There are certain conditions that are more likely to respond to placebo responses, or at least they have been better demonstrated in clinical trials. We should know what those conditions are but we should not limit placebo use to those conditions.
We need to ask ourselves honestly which of the therapies that we employ are "real" and which are simply eliciting placebo responses. Tbus one goal is to cast doubts on what we might believe.
.75 CE (with .25 pharm)
Learning Objectives:
Open label placebos are effective as deceptive placebos: we do not need to pretend or deceive
There are certain conditions that are more likely to respond to placebo responses, or at least they have been better demonstrated in clinical trials. We should know what those conditions are but we should not limit placebo use to those conditions.
We need to ask ourselves honestly which of the therapies that we employ are "real" and which are simply eliciting placebo responses. Tbus one goal is to cast doubts on what we might believe.