The Debate About Doctors Giving Out 'Fake' Medicines
Placebo treatments can make patients feel better. But is it ethical for doctors to prescribe them?
By
Lindsay Lyon
Posted November 6, 2008
Video: Home First Aid
With all that placebos may do to help, says Spiegel, "is it ethical to withhold placebos [from patients] if we know they work? If something has a chance of reducing [a patient's] symptoms in the least, why would you withhold that?"
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