Re: GEN: Placebos

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sun Oct 26 08:34:11 2008


Anyone who's written a scrip for antibiotics for a URI has pretty much administered a placebo. Anyone who's given patients oral terbutaline for uterine contractions has administered placebo. Then there's progesterone suppositories for threatened miscarriage or "low serum progesterone" - the list goes on.

At Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Efrain Ramirez wrote: >
>I don't
>Ef
>
>At Fri, 24 Oct 2008, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>Majority of Doctors Use Placebos, Survey Finds
>>
>>A new survey of American doctors has found that about half of respondents
>>give their patients placebo treatments, in many cases without informing them that
>>the treatment won’t necessarily be helpful. The study, published in the
>>online journal BMJ, surveyed a random sample of nearly 700 internists and
>>rheumatologists of which about 60 percent said that placebo treatments were ethically
>>acceptable. Studies in Britain, Denmark and Sweden have reported similar
>>findings.  Chantal Britt, Bloomberg  10/24/2008
>>Read Article: Bloomberg  Â
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>>Joe P.
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