[Sca-cooks] Placebos.

[Vladimir Armbruster]

Doesn't prescribing a placebo and telling the patient kinda cancel the
point?
----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Goldberg MD <goldberg at bestweb.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Placebos.


> > I'm not going to go into it, too much, how much I *HATE* placebos.  Ya
> see, I'm a 'REAL PAIN' kinda guy.  I've been on pain killers twice in my
> life, both times for a case of strep so severe if I hadn't behaved myself
it
> woulda been scarlatina.  In order to be able to ingest ANYTHING, I had to
> take Percocet.
> >
> > Placebos are evil evil things that should be reserved for those people
who
> honest to god only THINK they are in pain.  Like elderly folks with 'heart
> conditions' that don't show up on cardiac monitoring, etc..  Maybe the
> occasional hypocondriac.. (Though from what I know of them, they'll be
> diabetics soon enough with a sugar based placebo).
> >
> > I'm almost off my soapbox, but let me say in closing that I rarely see
> justification for deception as a method of medical treatment.
>
> Just for the record, the American Medical Association Code of Ethics
states
> that it is UNETHICAL for a physician to prescribe a placebo without
> informing the patient. Placebo-controlled research studies MUST so
indicate
> in the informed consent document.
>
> Randy Goldberg MD
>
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