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The real lesson of the placebo effect: When doctors are attentive, confident, and comforting, patients feel better--often regardless of how they are treated.
Democrats say Republicans who accuse Clinton of wagging the dog are deliberately aiding and comforting the enemy.
“The doctor stood back and appraised her with a comforting smile—.
Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
Trotter states that “the presence of the curandero, the soothing effect of the sweepings (touching), and the low-key monotone chant of the prayers produces in the patient a light trance state that is comforting and reassuring” (Trotter and Chavira 1997, 82).