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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029925.txt

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Ted Kaptchuk is a Harvard Medical School professor who has focused his career on studying the placebo effect.

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Ted Kaptchuk is a Harvard Medical School professor who has focused his career on studying the placebo effect. He began practicing acupuncture in Cambridge in the 1970s, where he noticed that some of his patients were experiencing significant health improvements without any apparent physical intervention. This led him to question the role of the mind and belief in healing processes and sparked an ongoing scientific inquiry into the power of placebos in medicine.

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