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The Placebo Prescription?

By John Swartzberg, MD, Chair, Wellness Letter Editorial Board

I recently came across a medical study that caught my eye because it investigated a controversial subject. In a survey of doctors from 21 countries, researchers posed this question: How often do you prescribe treatments that are “essentially placebos”?

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