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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Plantar Warts
Message-ID: <279@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 09:25:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 09:25:49 1985
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In article <2164@ukma.UUCP> wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) writes:
>However, there are two things you probably have not been told about
>that I will share with you:
>     #1  Even when I was in medical school (1958), every medical
>meeting I went to had a booth on warts.  Every booth on warts
>mentioned that the single most effective method of wart removal (short
>of surgery) was hypnosis. 
>. . . . 
>Since it is not nearly as lucrative as burning them
>off (& insurance won't pay for the hypnotic session needed to solve
>the problem) it has not been a popular alternative.  It only benefits
>the patient.

When I was in high school, I had a *painful* plantars wart, plus a
number of warts on my hands.  My family physician cured them by
"wishing" them away.  That is, he gave me some icky goop to put on them
and assured me that within a week, they'd be gone.  They were.  The next
time I saw him, I asked him what the goop was.  He said it wasn't
anything, but that warts are remarkably susceptible to placebos. My
physician *never* burned or cut warts off until he had tried "wishing"
them off.

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had a physician who wasn't more
interested in my welfare than his fees.  (My husband had one, once.
He simply changed physicians.)