[討論]考古form14 no.13

[小晃兄]

A placebo is a chemically inert substance prescirbed more for the mental relief of a patient than for its effect on the patient's physical disorder. It is prescribed in the hope of instilling in the patient a positive attitude toward prospects for his or her recovery. In some cases, the placebo actually produces improvement in the patient's condition. In discussing the use and effect of placebos, a well-known medical researcher recently paid physicians the somewhat offbeat compliment of saying that physicians were the ultimate placebo.

by comparing a physician to a placebo, the researcher sought to imply that

(a)physicians should always maintain and communicate an optimistic attitude toward their patients, regrardless of the prognosis
(b)the health of some patients can improve simply from their knowledge that they are under a physician's care.
(c)many patients actually suffer from imagined illnesses that are best treated by placebos
(d)physicians could prescribe less medication and achieve the same effect
(e)it is difficult to determine what, if any, effect a physician's behavior has on a patient's condition.

答案B。請問A為什麼不對，請各位牛牛指導一下，謝謝。
placebo->目的是要讓病人對康復存有希望，那A不是比較好嗎。

[Pufa]

被prognosis弄得頭昏腦脹。
prognosis=預後
我也不懂這個詞，應該是復原狀況的意思吧。

A：『醫生只要用嘴巴醫病人就好了，不用管復原狀況。』
最後一句太邪惡了。
這根原題不一樣，原題說placebo在某些情況下的確改善了病情。

[小晃兄]

恩，謝謝pufa，^_^，看來武斷性字眼少選這招要多用了。

prognosis這個字，我查文馨英漢字典，中文解釋也很玄，不過它說prognosis=diagnosis，所以看來是指診斷狀況，提供給你參考。