The ‘Nocebo Effect’ May Be Even Stronger Than Placebo
" This presents doctors with a thorny ethical dilemma: Do they have an obligation to disclose all available information to their patients, or does their oath to “first, do no harm” obligate them to withhold information that might cause their patients pain or other negative experiences? “It’s a hard question, because we don’t want to deceive patients, but at the same time, we don’t want to tap into this nocebo circuitry,” Napadow says."
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