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Monday, September 20, 2004According to the report published in the British Medical Journal, 60 percent of medical professionals prescribe placebos to their patients. For their findings, researchers questioned 89 members of the medical profession, including 31 doctors working in hospitals, 31 nurses, and 27 family physicians working in Jerusalem. Among the 89 participants, 60 percent reported using placebos, and 68 percent of the participants said they told their patients that they were receiving real medication. Maybe I'm dense, but I couldn't find any article like this in the BMJ. It 's certainly a jaw-dropping finding. In the U.S., this is unequivocally unethical. I couldn't find the article with a Google search or in PubMed, either. Could it be a hoax? UPDATE: Not a hoax. The link is here (in pdf). It was one of the early online releases. Thanks to a helpful reader for passing it along. posted by Sydney on 9/20/2004 07:58:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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