The patient may want to say that they are feeling better when they are not in order to continue the experimental treatment. Often times, a patient might give the doctor a polite answer in order to please them. The polite answer means that a positive report is given to the doctor, while the patient’s condition might have remained the same and not improved. The doctor might also skew the facts a little in order to get the outcomes that they want. They might put more pressure on the patients when interviewing them to get the “correct” answers. Another thing that needs to be remembered when using placebos, is that sick people can get better naturally, and that it is normal for symptoms to fluctuate. So when sick people take placebos, it hard to determine if the placebo made them better, or if something naturally occurred within the body that would have happened without it. There are quite a few variables that make it difficult to determine whether or not The Placebo Effect is taking place or if it some factor that is not within the bounds of the placebo.
The patient may want to say that they are feeling better when they are not in order to continue the experimental treatment. Often times, a patient might give the doctor a polite answer in order to please them. The polite answer means that a positive report is given to the doctor, while the patient’s condition might have remained the same and not improved. The doctor might also skew the facts a little in order to get the outcomes that they want. They might put more pressure on the patients when interviewing them to get the “correct” answers. Another thing that needs to be remembered when using placebos, is that sick people can get better naturally, and that it is normal for symptoms to fluctuate. So when sick people take placebos, it hard to determine if the placebo made them better, or if something naturally occurred within the body that would have happened without it. There are quite a few variables that make it difficult to determine whether or not The Placebo Effect is taking place or if it some factor that is not within the bounds of the placebo.