Re: GEN: Placebos
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Oct 27 09:53:10 2008
Not quite ... after all, the patient thinks it works ... and often
enough, it does.
At Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Dean Huffman wrote:
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>..
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>The difference is that in the cases you
>mentioned, the placebo is for the PHYSICIAN, not the patient!
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>From: "art fougner, md" <evsono@pipeline.com>
>Subject: Re: GEN: Placebos
>Date: Oct 26, 2008 9:36 AM
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>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:
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> >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 wonâ??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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> >
> >--
> >"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." - Michael
>Jordan
> >
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>art fougner, md
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art fougner, md
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