file.newsgroup.med.59579 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: Legality of placebos?
In article [email protected] (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>
>Actually, I don't know know anyone who has actually gotten a "sugar pill".
[...]
>
>It's more common to prescribe a drug which is effective for something, just
>not for what you have. Antibiotics for viral infections are the most
>common such placebo.
And presumably this is a matter of degree; it must be common to prescribe
a drug that has _some_ chance of giving _some_ benefit, but not a high
probability of it, and/or not a large benefit. Right?
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