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Ethics of placebo use in clinical practice: why we need to look beyond deontology
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- Published on: 17 September 2020
- Published on: 17 September 2020Placebos can still work when patients are told, honestly, that they are placebos
This study, https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.3006175, showed that the placebo effect still worked when patients were informed that they were receiving the placebo.
If this is generally true, there is no need to move from honesty.
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