According to Peters, "We can bracket the impact of this style of 'being with' as 'placebo response', but the term tends to confuse because it obscures a valuable and potentially transformative reorientation of the practitioner -- client axis; the action of the placebo response is triggered by the loving, trusting presence of another in the therapeutic relationship" (p. 173).

Today, women represent about half of all health administrators and almost half of all medical students, and the medical establishment is no longer overwhelmingly male. According to Satel (2000), "Nurses can now train for jobs with considerable clinical responsibility, like advanced practice nursing, with a salary range of $55,000 to 75,000 per year, depending on experience and location. An advanced practice nurse can prescribe many types of medications and order and interpret laboratory tests" (p. 88). Further, nurse midwives deliver babies and nurses in neonatal, coronary and surgical intensive-care units are...
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