...do no good. You deceive the patient and it is only when we act like quacks that our placebos work. The majority of placebos are given because we believe...be satisfied without them. He has learned to expect a medicine for every symptom, and without it he simply won't get well. True, but who has taught him...

...corrupt earthy friendship. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, a turnof-the century medical dissenter, is an example: "The majority of placebos are given because we believe...He has learned to expect medicine for every symptom . . . but who taught him to expect a medicine for every symptom? He was not born with that expectation....