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Kaptchuk’s Placebo Odyssey
Ironically, says Kaptchuk, it was his
success as an acupuncturist that made him leave the profession for academia.
“Patients who came to me got better,” he says, but sometimes their relief began
even before he’d started his treatments. He didn’t doubt the value of
acupuncture, but he suspected something else was at work. His hunch was that it
was his engagement with patients—and perhaps even the act of caring itself.
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