... prescription to an unsuspecting patient? One of my medications tastes like sugar and upon close examination, the first 3 letters of his last name are stamped on one side of the tablet.
Just a weird coincidence or a (sugar pill) placebo??
2007-04-20 22:10:41 · 9 answers · asked by Adios 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
SAMI's right ...Doctors cant give a patient a placebo unless you've agreed. They would loose their licence to practice medicine. The sugary coatings on medicines are there because the meds taste very bitter and disolve too quickly. The coating allows the pill to get into the stomach before it disolves.
2007-04-20 23:32:37 · answer #1 · answered by Kamp 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes there is still such a thing as a "placebo" (fake, sugar pill). And yes doctors knowingly give a prescription to an unsuspecting patient?
Usually they are prescibed when the patient demands medicine to cure a illness. Typically the illness is created by the patients
mind. The pill (placebo) tricks the patients mind to think it is getting a cure, when in fact it doesn't need one.
Quite often doctors prescibe placebo's to the elderly.
2007-04-20 22:23:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The lettering is bound to be a coincidence. Who would spend money on a personalized placebo? In general, there's some ethical problem with prescribing placebos, but they are, of course, routinely prescribed in studies, and neither the patient nor the treating physician knows who's getting the placebo or the real drug until the study's over.
2007-04-21 07:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
My Dad is a psychiatrist and I've actually asked him this exact question before.
It is highly unethical for a doctor to prescribe a placebo to an un suspecting patient and if the doctor was caught it would most probabally lose its right to practice.
There could also be legal ramifications as well.
2007-04-21 04:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nope, they would lose their license.
The only use of placebo is in medical research, not in general practice. Oh and why would someone stamp there name into a fake pill, what a waste of time.
2007-04-20 22:20:04 · answer #5 · answered by jim jam 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, when a drug trial takes place it involves a double blind test. neither the patient or the Doctor would know the drug from the placebo. Only the drug company would know.
2007-04-20 22:19:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All Homoeopathic prescriptions are "placebo". Modern doctors also prescribe placebo but only for research.
2007-04-20 22:15:17 · answer #7 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
yes doctors doing studies on people still give these out
2007-04-21 04:11:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Doctors do it all the time if they think you haven't a problem
or for people who keep running back and forth to the doctors.
You would be amazed how many people (sugar pills)help.
2007-04-20 22:20:41 · answer #9 · answered by Teenie 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋