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The study was conducted by the U.S. National Institutes Health, led by director of the research ethics program Franklin G. Miller. 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. That contradicts advice from the American Medical Association, which recommends doctors use treatments with the full knowledge of their patients. “It’s a disturbing finding,” said Franklin G. Miller, director of the research ethics program at the U.S. National Institutes Health and one of the study authors. “There is an element of deception here which is contrary to the principle of informed consent.” The study was being published online in Friday’s issue of BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal. Placebos as defined in the survey went beyond the typical sugar pill commonly used in medi
