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The Nocebo Effect: Reading Drug Labels Can Make You Sick

By Jon Coppelman

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There is a fascinating article in today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that raises interesting implications for workers compensation. Melinda Beck writes that warning labels on medications can actually stimulate symptoms, especially when stress is involved. In other words, when an injured employee reads a warning label - "this medicine may cause vomiting, headaches, drowsiness, etc" - he or she...

Full post as published by Workers Comp Insider on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).

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