Placebo effect Human effect is important
Robert W Leckridge, locum consultant
BMJ. 2008 May 17; 336(7653): 1087.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39577.509468.3A. PMCID: PMC2386616
Copyright © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 2008
The dismissal of non-specific effects of care as placebo effects (which are rated as sham, pretend, dishonest or false) does a huge disservice to patients and to doctors. The take home message in the article by Spiegel and Harrington is spot on: "We treat patients in a social and psychophysiological context that can either improve or, alas, worsen outcome. The meanings and expectations created by the interactions of doctors and patients matter physically, not just subjectively."1
It’s time for doctors to reclaim the human aspects of their work. Caring for patients with due time and attention is not a luxury nor superfluous. It has a direct impact on outcomes. We cannot reduce medical practice to the physical components of our interventions because human beings are more than their physical components. We are thinking, feeling, meaning-seeking creatures. Unless we are treated as such we cannot expect the best outcomes from our . . .
1 Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, Glasgow G12 0XQ
P.S. Timur, делают "все" "работники иного цеха".
