'Wellness: A novel' is Hill's second novel, following the success of his earlier work, 'The Nix,' released in 2016.
TWO PATIENTS suffering from lower back pain visit an acupuncturist. The acupuncturist performs a long consultation with each patient that involves examining their tongue's color and shape and general tumescence for telltale signs of ill health, then measuring the rate and depth and force of their heartbeat in both the left and right wrists simultaneously, then pressing fingers into important pressure points searching for signals of bodily disturbance or bio-imbalance.
Which, according to Dr. Otto Sanborne, proved that acupuncture - or at least the version of acupuncture practiced in the capitalist West- was fake."Merely a placebo" was how Sanborne described it in his final report to the FDA, after the Wellness team had completed its study of a statistically significant number of lower-back-pain sufferers and found that the success rate of real acupuncture and fake acupuncture was basically identical: around 44 percent.
For here was a back- pain treatment that required no surgery, no addictive drugs, nothing more expensive than a toothpick, had no side effects, and was successful almost half the time. It was the very definition of a quality medical intervention. And if a treatment was this effective, should we really worry about whether it was, technically, real? It made her wonder if instead of eliminating lies, maybe she could, somehow, harness them.
They all made poems and paintings about hallucinatory visits from"the green fairy" despite the fact that, scientifically speaking, absinthe had no special mind-altering qualities beyond that it was alcoholic. Elizabeth called this phenomenon the"meaning effect," a term she much preferred to"placebo effect.
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