#81: Placebos, nocebos, and the doctor as a placebo

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Boost treatment efficacy and amplify the “doctor as a placebo” phenomenon with tips from placebo expert (and ex-cartoonist), Mark W. Green, MD, Director of Headache/Pain Medicine and Professor of Neurology, Anesthesiology, and Rehabilitation Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Topics include: What’s that pesky sugar pill actually doing to us? Why do we get a boost from taking medicines that have no active compounds within them? How does placebo work? How can it be leveraged? What does it mean for study design/blinding? And what’s with its pesky dark twin--the nocebo effect? “Enjoy this, our only placebo-controlled episode” (Thanks, Stuart!).

Written and produced by: Molly Heublein, MD and Nora Taranto MS3; Edited by: Matthew Watto, MD

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0:00.0	The first Irish podcast is for entertainment education and information process only.
0:09.2	And the topics discussed should not be used only by industry, your orbit and industry is more
0:11.6	conditioned, but more than used in the same expressed on the podcast are so low to those
0:13.6	should not be interpreted perfectly for official post-evaluation of the agency's psychrumposily,
0:16.0	cash-like morons will end up in the outreach programs, and indeed they're far in the
0:18.1	end of that.
0:19.1	Pretty much we are close to each other, but we do our homework and let's not forget.
0:25.1	Welcome back to the Curbsiders.
0:36.5	Well, hello Matthew.
0:38.6	How are you doing?
0:39.6	Good, I'm doing well Stewart and the family.
0:43.3	How's the family?
0:44.3	The family is okay.
0:45.5	Great.
0:46.5	That's a little unusual.
0:47.5	We use it to start the shows like this Stewart.
0:50.1	That's okay.
0:51.1	I know Paul is not here, but Molly Hoybline is here.
0:54.8	Hi Molly.
0:55.8	Hey Molly.
0:56.8	Hi thanks for having me back.
0:58.6	Yeah, it's a pleasure.
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