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How to Study Placebo Responses in Motion Sickness with a Rotation Chair Paradigm in Healthy Participants
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When the evidence suggests that placebo is best
John Hickner, Richard Guthmann1
1Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency, Chicago.
The Journal of Family Practice
|November 24, 2021
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