Sham surgeries are then blamed for bringing down the trials. So we are deceived, then something unknown - namely the placebo power - comes from within - but is not always initiated by the patient participant. Little things and comments from the uninformed technicians and others they run into in the hospital can start up the placebo effect with a comment unintentionally. They are ignorant of why the person is in the hospital.

It's time they stop drilling holes in our heads. I thought we were civilized but the more I think about it , the more it becomes a scientists' playground and mental illness, like post traumatic stress syndrome, is the result. People hate when their doctors don't care.

We have to stop agreeing to be "picked' for these dangerous trials and insist on being included in the research agenda.


paula