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Doctors Often Prescribe Placebo Treatments
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 The argument about the ethics of placebo treatment can also be turned around, he added. "There are ways to present placebo treatment that do not involve deception," he said. "You are doing it because it can help a patient, and a certain percentage of patients will respond. Especially in conditions where we do not have a lot of treatments, is it ethical to withhold it?"
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The history of placebo treatments is described in the Skeptics Dictionary.
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Last updated 10/24/2008
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SOURCES: Farr A. Curlin, M.D., assistant professor, medicine, University of Chicago; David Spiegel, M.D., assistant chair, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Andrew Leuchter, M.D., professor, psychiatry, and associate dean, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; Oct. 24, 2008, BMJ
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