Patients Give the Green Light for Placebos

Patients are more open to the use of placebos than many clinicians may think, sometimes even more open than the clinicians are, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland; Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland; and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. However, patients value most the honesty and trust displayed by the physician in the prescription of placebo treatments.