Half of Arthritis Doctors Regularly Prescribe Placebo Pills to Patients
By Mike Adams, October 24, 2008 | Key concepts: Placebo, Arthritis and Physicians
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About half of rheumatologists regularly prescribe placebo pills to patients, new research has uncovered, and they don't inform patients they're being prescribed placebo pills. Over 60 percent of doctors insist that prescribing placebo pills is ethical. This is in direct contradiction to the FDA, which insists placebo pills are medically useless and have no biological function whatsoever.
From Reuters.com: Many American doctors give their patients a placebo, usually a relatively innocuous drug such as a pain reliever, in the guise of medical treatment and view the practice as ethical, researchers said on Thursday.... more
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