▶ Topic :
Both of the reading and the lecture discuss about placebo effects, specifically placebo effects are really exist.
To begin with, the reading said that a lot of patients naturally feel better as time goes on, because many illnesses can be cured by human body itself. The reading pointed out patients are healing with or without fake drugs, anyway. However, the professor who in the lecture disputed the reading's opinion by showing example, she said when there are no treatments for patients the people who take fake drugs had cured but other people who can not take even fake drugs are can not make any improvements.
In addition, the reading said when the time that patients know about their illness, they make some changes in their life style for the best and these changes help patients feel better, not fake drugs. On the other hands, professor said people who having a mental illness be cured by placebo effect, such as depression. Professor said placebo effect can make a improvements to patients having a mental illness without any changes in patients's life style.
Finally, the reading said hard to find existent of certain evidence with placebo effect. When doctor give some pills for patients then ask how it feel, patients make the answer that they feel better than before. The reading said this answer can be influenced by patients's predict that doctor want to good respond with fills which patients received. However, the professor said people who take fake drugs actually have a lot of advance in their condition and those changes observed to subjective evidence such as heart beats, X-ray and MRI picture.