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Originally Posted by TKDLady
so the doctor gets overloaded and doesn't have the time to take with each patient plus if he does something they don't like or they get sicker they immediately sue him.
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That may be related to why people effectively get so many "placebos" prescribed. All meds have side-effects, thus if your complaint is not "real" (for lack of a better word), the only thing you may notice are exactly the side-effects.
A lot of the working of some meds (for instance sleeping tablets) is attributable to effects similar to placebo-effects. Now of course these work only as long as you believe they work. Something similar holds for a lot of "alternative medicine" as well.
But then again, society as a whole promotes these attitudes.