It’s a trade secret. You can’t tell anyone.

When you become a doctor you take this oath, and The Remote is bestowed upon you.

You enrol patients into your clinical trials, but they aren’t assigned to the group receiving the drug that will save their life. You know they will die without The Remote.

So you click click click, and they change. They take care of themselves, they’re optimistic, they eat well, they exercise, they socialise with their friends. They believe they will survive.

Of course you can’t save everyone, but The Remote makes a hell of a lot of difference for the patients who you’re not allowed to treat with medicine.

And the public look on, thinking how crazy it is that the placebo effect actually works! But you know it’s really The Remote.