[Sca-cooks] OT - Placebos.

[Vladimir Armbruster]

<looks in his soapbox, tapping out the sudsy remains>

Now what am I supposed to do with a used soapbox?
----- Original Message -----
From: Rosine <rosine at sybercom.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT - Placebos.


> > Placebos are evil evil things that should be reserved
> > for those people who honest to god only THINK
> > they are in pain.  Like elderly folks with 'heart conditions'
> > that don't show up on cardiac monitoring, etc..  Maybe
> > the occasional hypocondriac..
>
> Off the Soapbox,
> Vladimir
>
> *engage Grandma Gumsucker voice mode*
>    Careful with that generalization button, there sonny... some of us
> seniors (I'm 45 now) have legitimate chest pain that doesn't show up on
> monitors on command. I know - one killed me at age 39 (doesn't that just
> sound dramatic?) I got better, thanks to CPR, a heart injection or two and
5
> hours of surgery. And now I'm feisty and mean (except to Adamantius, to
whom
> I am kind, innocent, guileless and um, whatever else is unfrightening. I
> wouldn't want to end up like Olwen... hi Olwen!, btw).
>
>    Seriously, I can see the benefits of placebos, because I know how
> powerful suggestion is on one's mind - there's many an account of someone
> who didn't experience pain or who cured themselves of a slogging condition
> with the aid of a placebo and their belief that it was a miracle drug. I
had
> one administered while undergoing training for bio-feedback for my heart
> condition. It helped stave off the deterioration that finally affected me
> years after my projected "death age". That being said, I also think that
it
> is something that shouldn't be used often and certainly not for something
> like traumatic dental pain. Your doctor has to know that you, his patient,
> have the ability and willpower to "make it so" ... and dang few casual
> healthcare providers (folks you only see sporadically) can properly assess
> that.
>
> handing back the soapbox,
> Rosine
>
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