Doctors use placebos but don’t tell patients
January 21st, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Nearly half of physicians use placebos in clinical care, and only 4% tell their patients the truth about it, according to a survey of Chicago academic physicians that was published this month in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Only 8% of the 231 physicians surveyed used placebos more than 10 times during the last year, but experts were alarmed by doctors’ self-reported, less-than-straightforward conversations with patients about placebos.
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