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Doctors Working Due To Placebo Effect

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Doctors often have to make difficult decisions during clinical trials. When a patient is sick and it looks as if they may not survive, doctors try to do their most for them. However, some diseases to this day are still incurable even though many doctors try to find cures. With these experiments for cures many doctors conduct tests on patients with drugs. Sometimes the drugs work but other times they do not help at all. Some scientists can argue that the drugs are only working due to the placebo effect. The placebo effect, is when a patient believes they are taking a drug that will help them but they are really only taking a sugar pill. This strong belief sometimes helps people get better even without taking any medicine. For the people

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