The Pros And Cons Of Placebos

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Do you think Doctor should secretly prescribe placebos to the patients? Is it Ethical for doctors to prescribe Placebos? In my view it’s “Yes”, because even placebo is a drug that has no value in itself, but improves a patient's health condition as they believe. Placebo treatment is also known as 'sham' treatment in the field of meditative. Taking some sugar pill or saline injection has been positive results from the patient. 80% of patients had a positive response by taking sugar water to cure from vomiting. There are several explanations why placebos work. Placebo is an opioid medicine, which has a positive response by taking apill, it is the conditioning model, which has great impact in medicine but contact with rehabilitative health care services, and it is an expectation treatment in which patients improve because they expect the placebo to have a satisfied effect.
Placebo is an opioid medicine, which has a positive response by taking a pill. The opioid mechanism is used to reduce pain due to by physiological mechanism.The opioids have numerous adverse effects, in which patients can quickly develop a psychological dependence on opioids in which they have a significant impact on the functioning of the patient’s central nervous system, which makes the patient to feel it as a real drug and helps effectto transmit the positive effect …show more content…

In addition to this, placebo having positive outcome in order to relieve pain in nervousness condition. Placebo helps the doctor to treat patient with less harm, and several people state that doctors have a right to take a decision on behalf of the patient to regulate the placebo. Moreover, some people believe that placebo altered the brain neurotransmitters that results positive effects and provide the relaxation to the patient mind and effective for the depression as

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