For three years at the houston veterans affairs medical center, dr. bruce moseley and many others conducted a fascinating study
of the effectiveness of arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee. the most intriguing part of the experimental study comes from the fact that they randomized the patients into three groups, one of which was a placebo surgery (fake surgery). watch the six-minute video clip below and comment in your groups discussion board what impact this study made on your personal perception of the placebo effect.
The placebo effect is a procedure in which a patient is made to believe that a drug has a direct on the person. Therefore improving his/her symptoms from the said disease that he/she is experiencing. It is directly injecting or making a procedure using alternatives. The idea is that the patient would believe such measures were done and that they will be cured from their diseases. There are no video clips available on you questions but I hope this helps.
