Question: The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
This has huge implications for the health care system as it operates today, where depleted resources and time lead to patients rotating in and out of doctor’s offices, oftentimes receiving minimal care or concern (what is company referred to as “bed side manner) from doctors.
The placebo effect is when as individual’s medical condition or pain shows signs of improvement based on a fake intervention that has been presented to them as a real one and used to be regularly dismissed by researchers as a psychological effect.
The placebo effect is not solely based on believing in treatment, however as the clinical setting in which treatment are administered is also paramount.
That the mind has the power to trigger biochemical changes the individual believes that a given drug or intervention will be effective could empower chronic patients through the notion of our bodies capacity for self-healing.
Placebo effects are now studied not just as foils for real interventions but as a potential into the self-healing powers of the body.
Among the sentences, sentence 2 is the obvious starter for the set. The set talks about the placebo effect and its implications – sentence 2 begins the discussion by defining what the placebo effect means. Among the remaining sentences, we can see a connection between sentence 3 and sentence 1 as sentence 3 talks about the ‘clinical settings’ being important and sentence 1 says that ‘this’ has huge implications for the health care system and goes on to talk about the bedside manner of doctors which is a reference to clinical settings.