From Sugar Pills to Photons
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by Mark Marnocha
Relationships are the everyday mysteries, and have significant impacts upon health. Within relationships are powerful expectations, and the foundations of faith, hope, pessimism or despair. While most health-care research examines healing via drugs, such investigation comes around again and again to the gold standard for a panacea: positive expectations in the context of a healing relationship. Even as US healthcare becomes more technological, there is a call for person-centeredness. Its roots are found variously in placebos, nocebos, addictions, adherence, empathy, mindfulness, and, perhaps, quantum physics. Let’s inhabit this sacred space together!
