http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/27/is-your-doctor-prescribing-placebo-treatments/ The latest from the FOX News Health team. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:12:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/27/is-your-doctor-prescribing-placebo-treatments/#comment-16674 adam@the diet pills report Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:49:30 +0000 http://foxnewshealth.wordpress.com/?p=1439#comment-16674 omg! I can understand perhaps gving the patient something other than what they think they are getting, if for example they are insisting on receiving (the wrong) medication based on expectation of a quick fix, advertising etc. But to not follow up and reveal that to the patient, after evaluating the success of the 'real' medication ... is most DEFINATELY unethical, not to mention fraudulent. In areas of health and well being, knowingly prescribing alternate or placebo pills is not just wrong, it could be terribly detrimental. Especially as I understand what the doctors admit to in this study ... that the 'alternates' are generally the *wrong* medications, prescribed out of pressure, personal gain or simplicity. Just awful. omg! I can understand perhaps gving the patient something other than what they think they are getting, if for example they are insisting on receiving (the wrong) medication based on expectation of a quick fix, advertising etc. But to not follow up and reveal that to the patient, after evaluating the success of the ‘real’ medication … is most DEFINATELY unethical, not to mention fraudulent. In areas of health and well being, knowingly prescribing alternate or placebo pills is not just wrong, it could be terribly detrimental. Especially as I understand what the doctors admit to in this study … that the ‘alternates’ are generally the *wrong* medications, prescribed out of pressure, personal gain or simplicity. Just awful.

]]> http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/27/is-your-doctor-prescribing-placebo-treatments/#comment-16630 Carmen Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:08:21 +0000 http://foxnewshealth.wordpress.com/?p=1439#comment-16630 This would make me very angry. It cost a small fortune to go to the dr. as it is. Times are tough people are struggling, if my dr did that without my knowledge I would consider it a form of fraud. As it is I pay for a visit that I may get to spend a whole 2 minutes with the dr. This is just wrong and I would find another dr. This would make me very angry. It cost a small fortune to go to the dr. as it is. Times are tough people are struggling, if my dr did that without my knowledge I would consider it a form of fraud. As it is I pay for a visit that I may get to spend a whole 2 minutes with the dr. This is just wrong and I would find another dr.

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