PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Glackin, Shane Nicholas TI - Parsing placebo treatments: a response to Barnhill and Miller AID - 10.1136/medethics-2015-103082 DP - 2016 Oct 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 687--689 VI - 42 IP - 10 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/10/687.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/10/687.full SO - J Med Ethics2016 Oct 01; 42 AB - Anne Barnhill and Franklin Miller dispute my claim that the prescriptions of placebo treatments to patients are not typically deceptive, and do not typically violate the patients' informed consent. However, Barnhill and Miller seriously mischaracterise my position in two ways, as well as failing to show that the procedure I discuss requires a physician to act wrongfully in deceiving her patient. Accordingly, I find their argument unpersuasive.