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Brain Scan Study Suggests Docs 'Feel' Your Pain

When presented with what seemed to be patients in discomfort, physicians' own pain centers reacted

To Kaptchuk, the bottom line is this: "A caring doctor is not just something you feel, but there is real biology here."

More information

There's more on the placebo effect at the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

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