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Letter: Nothing works

Published 16 June 2001

From Graham Guest

A way of solving the ethical dilemma over placebos
(26 May, p 34) is to
explain to the patient that in your opinion the remedy is a placebo and that
since the placebo effect has been shown scientifically to be real there is a
good chance that the remedy will work. A truthful explanation with no spin.

London

Issue no. 2295 published 16 June 2001

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