"The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect."

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Irving Kirsch

#Doctors Quotes #Patient Quotes #Placebo Quotes

“To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.”
“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.”
“A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?”
“Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.”
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.”
“I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.”
“I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friendâ€™s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.”

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