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In fact, the word placebo means "I shall please" in Latin, hinting at a history of placating troubled
patients.
To evaluate a new drug, for instance, half the
patients
in a trial might receive the real pill.
Since
patients
wouldn't know whether they'd received the real thing or a dud, the results wouldn't be biased, researchers believed.
Thanks to the placebo effect,
patients
have experienced relief from a range of ailments, including heart problems, asthma, and severe pain, even though all they'd received was a fake drug or sham surgery.
Some believe that instead of being real, the placebo effect is merely confused with other factors, like
patients
trying to please doctors by falsely reporting improvements.
In the 1840s, they started sedating
patients
with ether during dental extractions and surgeries.
And each year, new anesthesia techniques are developed that will ensure more and more
patients
survive the trauma of surgery.
But we needed special
patients.
And when we did that, we found 10
patients.
Let's see if they can find similar
patients
with the one P, the other P, the glucose measurements in that range that we need.
God bless them, Vanderbilt in one week found 40 such patients, same trend.
Harvard found 100 patients, same trend.
So at the end, we had 150
patients
from three diverse medical centers that were telling us that
patients
getting these two drugs were having their glucose bump somewhat significantly.
I take care of patients, but I don't do pipettes.
So we were sitting around thinking about all of this, and I don't remember who thought of it, but somebody said, "I wonder if
patients
who are taking these two drugs are noticing side effects of hyperglycemia.
So we said OK, let's ask Google if they will share their search logs with us, so that we can look at the search logs and see if
patients
are doing these kinds of searches.
The reason it deserves attention is that
patients
are telling us their side effects indirectly through their searches.
As I said before, there are
patients
on three, five, seven, nine drugs.
And so the upside here, and the subject for a different TED Talk on a different day, is how can we use the same data sources to find good effects of drugs in combination that will provide us new treatments, new insights into how drugs work and enable us to take care of our
patients
even better?
Patients
describe it as crushing or vice-like.
Doctors often prescribe low-dose aspirin, for example, particularly for
patients
who've already had a heart attack and for those known to be at high risk.
I saw colleagues and friends die, my students, hospital patients, die.
And in my mind, my job was to take care of
patients
and to do research to better understand the population patterns of transmission, and I hoped that we'd slow the spread of the virus.
I rationalized my silence by reminding myself that I was a guest in the country, that sounding the alarm could even get me kicked out, keep me from doing good work, taking care of my patients, doing much-needed research.
Our pact with our patients, the Hippocratic Oath and its variants, is about the sanctity of the patient-doctor relationship.
We do little for our
patients
if we fail to recognize these social injustices.
Our role as health professionals is not just to treat our
patients
but to sound the alarm and advocate for change.
The health of our patients, the health of us all, depends on it.
Another phenomenon called phantom itching can occur in
patients
who've had amputations.
One of the hardest groups of
patients
to get the right dosage for are children.
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