The Placebo Effect: Defendable Deception?

The Buddha once said, "The heart is everything, your thoughts, you will be." The human brain has far more abilities and ability beyond people's imagination. Various studies have shown that the brain can heal the body with a phenomenon called a placebo effect for many years. In brief, this effect occurs when the doctor prescribes counterfeit pills, performs sham operation on the patient, and when the patient is still recovering due to the tremendous strength of the heart. The use of the placebo effect means that the doctor has cheated on his patient, but this practice is very successful, so it should be allowed.

The power of placebo effect led to an ethical dilemma. A person should not trick another person, but should reduce his own pain and suffering. Should fraud be used for patient benefit? If a doctor knows to prescribe a placebo without informing the patient, is it immoral? If patients are notified to reduce the effectiveness of placebo, do you need fraud to benefit patients? Some doctors think that it is reasonable to use placebo in situations that show a strong placebo effect and cause pain to be a factor of worsening. Others believe that deceiving patients is always wrong and informed consent requires patients to be treated with placebo treatment. Other people, especially supplements with supplements and alternative medicine (CAM), do not want to know even if treatment is placebo.

A placebo can be given to a person on the clinical site to deceive the recipient as thinking it is active treatment. The use of placebo as a treatment in clinical medicine is morally problematic as it results in fraud and dishonesty in the relationship between physician and patient. Placebo does not affect disease itself, but only affects awareness of human condition. Historically, the influential research of 1955 entitled "Strong Placebo" established a clinically important view of the placebo effect. This is the result of the role of the brain in physical health The review of this study says "there is no evidence of any placebo effect." These studies are quoted. Subsequent studies found that placebo is not a useful treatment.