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Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos

Posted by samzenpus on from the balance-the-humors dept.

Techmeology writes "In a survey of UK GPs, 97% said they'd recommended placebo treatments to their patients, with some doctors telling patients that the treatment had helped others without telling them that it was a placebo. While some doctors admitted to using a sugar pill or saline injection, some of the placebos offered had side effects such as antibiotic treatments used as placebos for viral infections."

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  1. Measurable outcomes vs Perceived outcomes by xQx · · Score: 1, Troll

    "They are not very effective at reducing measurable symptoms, and not effective at improving outcomes. "

    While we're on the topic why don't we just get it all out:

    Mental illness is not a real illness.

    People who suffer mental illness should just get the f*ck over it.

    Real illness can be seen, touched, measured.

    Placebos don't work, subjects just overwhelmingly report that they do.