Nurse Skeptical's Retort
Nurse Skeptical's response to the above interpretation of the scenario is likely to be quite defensive, and a defense of her actions and decisions would not be entirely without grounds. If there was indeed a psychological problem that Mrs. testy was experiencing, it would render her incapable of autonomy at least in the very limited regard of her requests for pain medication. The very essence of a psychologically-induced feeling of pain is that the patient cannot differentiate between a psychological and a physiological symptom, and thus cannot accurately report the pain to their medical professional. Furtehrmore, should the placebo that Nurse Skeptical plans on administering prove equally successful in "treating" the "pain," her actions would seem entirely justified.
This defense overlooks several key factors necessary to the proper provision of medical care, however. First and foremost, there is at least some possibility that the pain Mrs. Testy is experiencing is a physiological and not a psychological symptom, meaning that the two-week course of placebos rather than pain killers suggested by Nurse Skeptical and approved by the attending physician carries a strong possibility of causing undue and unethical discomfort to the patient for no good reason. Second, there should be no barrier in approaching Mrs. Testy and informing her that the pain appears to be unrelated to her primary condition, and suggesting psychological treatment as an alternative or an addition to the pain medication. The placebo course would fail to treat the underlying psychological issue anyway, and psychological treatment would be eventually indicated.
Hurting the Professional: an Alternative View
There are, of course, many other interpretations and explanations of the scenario at hand available in the literature. One such explanation would essentially toss out the notion of an explicit professional-client relationship type at work here, and suggest that Nurse Skeptical's actions and decisions are a response to hurt inflicted on her by the client (Andre 1994). Professionals in the medical field often (hopefully...
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