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To the Editor: In their Clinical Problem-Solving article, Beigel et al. (Sept. 17 issue)¹ describe a patient with abdominal pain of unclear cause whose symptoms responded well to the administration of a placebo. The discussant mentions that "the patient's response to a placebo injec-tion . . . raises the possibility of a psychological cause." A change in the patient's condition due to the injection of a placebo should not necessarily be interpreted as evidence of a psychogenic cause. Placebo medications and procedures have been shown to be efficacious in treating angina² (one of the diagnoses considered by the discussant) as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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