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How Did Mr. Wright Have Advanced Lymphosarcoma?

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How Did Mr. Wright Have Advanced Lymphosarcoma?
Mr. Wright had advanced lymphosarcoma. He was declared a terminal patient and he only had a few weeks to live. He had tried almost everything, he had all but given up until he heard about an experimental treatment involving the drug called Krebiozen. He traveled to a Hospital that was conducting the experimental treatment and begged to become a subject, after continuous begging, lasting a few days, a doctor finally relented and allowed him to become a patient. Mr. Wright was given the medicine and within a few days, almost all of his symptoms were gone and the tumor masses had shrunk half the size. He kept improving until he heard conflicting reports on the news about the drug, many saying that it did not work, and many saying that it did work. After he heard this, he relapsed. He went back to his original state. The doctor, …show more content…
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.

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