Have you ever listened to an advertisement listing the possible side-effects of a drug and then felt queasy? Reading about those effects can make you feel ill, as well.
Dr. Lissa Rankin’s recently published New York Times bestseller, Mind over Medicine, in part, examines this disturbing phenomenon.
Reading Rankin’s thought-provoking book reminded me of Fiona Macrae’s 2009 health post “The health alerts that make you ill: Negative thoughts ‘can induce sickness’ ” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1181335).
