A Gulf War veteran undergoing medical treatment said he was given placebos -- or sugar pills -- instead of real medicine.
Like thousands of other soldiers, Army veteran Mike Woods said he developed bizarre symptoms after serving in the first Gulf War -- blackouts, chest pain and numbness in the extremities.
Woods looked to the Veterans Administration for help. He said his VA doctor prescribed him a drug called Obecalp.
"She told me there was this new drug out that would really help me with all of my physical conditions, and my pain. She really wanted me to try it," said Woods.
But when the pill provided no relief, Woods did some research and learned that Obecalp isn't a medicine at all, but a sugar pill. He was shocked to learn the word "obecalp" is placebo spelled backward.
"It is absolutely ridiculous that they're giving Gulf War veterans a sugar pill to cure pain. It's like giving a cancer patient a sugar pill to cure cancer," said veterans' advocate Steve Robinson.
"To me, it's so wrong. It's immoral," said Dr. Damian Alagia, Medical Society of Washington, D.C.
Algia agrees that prescribing placebo to patients who haven't provided their consent is unethical. Although, he said research shows placebos are often effective in making a patient think he's getting better.
"Thirty-five percent of the time placebo will work," he said.
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it is rediculous that they don't check if there is a real problem going on with them.
and giveing placebo's works thirty-five percent but it will NOT if they consented to it.
That is why it is called a placebo and not a real working medicine.
placebo's prove to me the power of the mind and belief are verry great powers.
Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:23 am
Standvast
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 91 Location: the paddleless glassbottom ark
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placebo's prove to me the power of the mind and belief are verry great powers.
I agree, If the mind had no direct effect on the body,..
No placebo would've worked...
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making a patient think he's getting better.
That's the way they generally [mis]treat all people..
give them a foolish hope of betterment,
whether it is material , mental or spiritual.
Standvast.
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Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:17 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8624 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
The power of the mind control gets people to accept chemical poisons, radiation and cutting as healing agents.
