The National Institutes of Health says U.S. doctors regularly prescribe placebos.
In a survey of internists and rheumatologists, researchers find half of them admitted to prescribing placebo.
Sixty-two percent believed the practice to be ethically acceptable despite the fact they rarely told patients they were giving them placebos.
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