Week 11

An interesting topic that I found that we discussed in class was the placebo article.  The fact that "most family doctors had given the placebo drug to at least one of their patients" was a new discovery, at least for me. While I initially thought this was a horrific find, after hearing everyone else's opinion on the subject of placebo's in general, I can see the pros and cons to both sides. For some, it really is a mind thing, and if taking a pill will make them better, then I don't see the harm. On the other hand, if it is a severe illness, then giving a patient a pill to test this theory out is controversial.  However we look at it, there needs to be research done on the study of placebos, and there's no other way to really test the effects without human subjects.