About Half of U.S. Doctors Prescribe Their Patients Placebo Treatments According to a Survey….?

Question by Doran: About half of U.S. doctors prescribe their patients placebo treatments according to a survey….?
…Does it surprise you?
Here’s a link to the article:

http://news.aol.com/health/article/many-doctors-treat-with-placebos/224249?icid=100214839x1211750474x1200708516

Best answer:

Answer by Good Bye
Doesn’t surprise me. It works sometimes, and get them out the door onto somebody else who might be really sick and drugs will help them.

Answer by Corine
Actually, it does surprise me. I certainly don’t know everything, and I am far from worldly, but I’ve been in the medical field for about 12 years now, and out of all the gazillions of doctor’s orders I have taken and initiated, I have never even heard talk of giving a placebo. If this survey is correct, then I would have given a half-gazillion placebos by now. But I couldn’t even fathom a doctor doing that. Maybe I need to get out more often? I don’t know…

I do have some thoughts on it though. It’s kinda cute; when I am administering IV medication, I always tell the patient what the drug is, and it’s side effects. “This is a narcotic and it may make you feel funny or strange as I’m pushing it in, and it may make you feel a little tired or loopy later.” Well, I flush the line first with saline just to make sure it’s a good line, and sometimes the patient assumes that is the medication, and they will respond to just the saline. “Oh wow, I can feel it already.” And I haven’t even given the pain medication yet. Huh? I think that’s cute. It’s funny how your brain processes information; if you think it will work, then it will work.

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