Urgent Message: The placebo effect can produce clinical manifestations of various disease states, particularly for pain. It has practical clinical implications for urgent care clinicians who routinely recommend oral medications for pain. Vinay Sharma, BS; Ariana M. Nelson, MD Keywords: acute pain; chronic pain; placebo effect; expectation; verbal suggestion; endogenous opioid signaling; dopamine signaling; placebo analgesia; medical ethics Abstract The placebo effect—the nonspecific beneficial effect of a medical treatment—involves complex psychological, biological, and physiological interactions. …
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