Tricking the mind about bariatric surgery: A first-of-its-kind study into hypnotic weightloss

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Physicians are not supposed to fool their patients, but in unique procedures at Jerusalem's Hadassah-University Medical Center on Mount Scopus, the patients knew about it in advance, and it made them better.In the hospital's surgical department, a groundbreaking clinical study is currently underway – the first of its kind in the world.Maya Mizrahi, a medical psychologist and licensed hypnotist who developed the innovative intervention “hypnotic sleeve surgery,” dressed as a surgeon and led the