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"Patient feels nausea when seeing the color yellow; I have proscribed a placebo to gauge the effect." Not something a doc would want the patient to know.

• parineum 4y ago
  Doctors shouldn't be performing experiments.
  • YLYvYkHeB2NRNT 4y ago
    Respectively they should. This is how they narrow down and diagnose something the right way. Something that your computer algorthims can not do,
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    Kid has asthma? Experiment with an inhaler. Switch to a different one if it's not effective. Recurrent skin infection? Experiment with antibiotics to find one it's not resistant to. Patient on a ventilator? Getting them off will require experimenting with vent settings and periods of having them off the vent.
    • parineum 4y ago
      Trying a medication that's proven effective to treat symptoms in some cases isn't the same as giving a placebo. One is regular medical practice and the other is medical research. People don't go to the doctor to participate in research, they go to get treated.
      • ceejayoz 4y ago
        Placebos have been proven effective to treat symptoms in some cases.
        • parineum 4y ago
          Imagine how good _thinking_ you're taking the right medication would be and _actually_ taking the right medication would be.