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The Power of Nothing

Michael Specter December 5, 2011

Ted Kaptchuk, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is highlighted in this piece about whether studying the placebo effect could change the way we think about medicine.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/12/12/111212fa_fact_specter#ixzz1ffOMpayt
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