2021-02-12 14:28:56
PANDEMIC CRITICALLY CONSIDERED
THE "NOCEBO EFFECT"
The same effect takes effect with Corona. People are told they are suffering from a very special disease, they believe it, and as a result they feel their flu is particularly bad. Overly concerned doctors and relatives then reinforce this feeling even further.
This is called the "Nocebo-Effect" [In contrast to the positive effect in the placebo effect, the Nocebo-Effect results in a negative reaction. The nocebo effect also refers to a negative reaction to the rumored lasting adverse effect on health or well-being of an environmentally modifying measure.- Wikipedia]
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A well-known study on sham operations is that of the American surgeon Bruce Moseley. As a specialist in joint disease, he had numerous elderly people with knee osteoarthritis among his patients, and arthroscopies were part of his routine. At some point, he wanted to know if part of the treatment success was not due to a placebo effect.
He staged completely normal operations with the usual preliminaries such as admission to the hospital, sedative injection, anesthesia and the typical sounds of an operating room, but actually operated on only half of the patients. For the others, he only scored the skin during anesthesia to make the knee bleed a little and gave them a thick suture. To perfect the illusion, the fake surgeons were able to watch a real operation on a monitor just like everyone else, except that it wasn't their own operation.
The result was that the people operated on for appearances were just as satisfied with the treatment after the healing phase as those actually operated on. Moseley regarded this as proof of a placebo effect. At the same time, however, it also showed that knee joint surgery is useless or superfluous in many cases because the complaints also disappear on their own or with less invasive therapy. In fact, this intervention is now no longer considered the treatment of choice for knee joint wear and tear, but is only recommended for certain narrowly defined conditions
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