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What to expect when a doctor’s visit might be painful?

At the doctor’s you sometimes have to undergo a painful procedure. The expectations you have affect how you will experience this. How can you manage your pain expectations given the uncertainty of how intense the pain will be? What should the doctor say?

Anastasiia Myronenko + 1 other • 18-02-2025

Be pandemic prepared: let's make lifestyle part of our society's DNA

Undeniably, the coronavirus has had a huge impact on our lives over the past two years. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect illustration of the importance of prevention and of a healthy lifestyle...

Andrea Evers • 19-04-2022

Government, media and people: it’s time to shift our attention to the Corona placebo effect!

All of us have spent recent months tackling the crisis and steeling ourselves to deal within the struggle against Corona. Some people have called it a war; many have classed it as the most serious crisis we have ever had to face, and one that is likely to have disastrous and unpredictable effects.

Andrea Evers • 10-06-2020

Taking the power of expectations to the patient

How easily can you be influenced in your expectations? To what degree do your expectations influence you, for example, your symptoms when being ill or the effects of treatment? And how can such expectations be applied to optimize patient care?

Henriët van Middendorp • 12-11-2018

Alternative medicine and the placebo effect

A lot of money is spent on alternative medicine, even though there is no scientific evidence that its benefits are anything more than a placebo effect. But if it makes patients feel better, is there actually anything wrong with these treatments?

Sabine Peters • 24-03-2014

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What to expect when a doctor’s visit might be painful?

Be pandemic prepared: let's make lifestyle part of our society's DNA

Government, media and people: it’s time to shift our attention to the Corona placebo effect!

Taking the power of expectations to the patient

Alternative medicine and the placebo effect