Survey: Half of US doctors use placebo treatments

Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 18:21 in Health & Medicine

LONDON (AP) -- About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments - usually drugs or vitamins that won't really help their condition. And many of these doctors are not honest with their patients about what they are doing, the survey found....

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