A Quote by John E. Sarno

... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

John E. Sarno

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John E. Sarno
American - Physician
Born: June 23, 1923

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

Matthieu Ricard

Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.

John Cornwell

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

Irving Kirsch

In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."

Kenny Smith

There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

Chris Kilham

I became a human placebo.

Bobby Sherman

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

Charles Jencks

You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

Charles Jencks

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.