Comments on: Could Placebo Diet Pills Help You Lose Weight? http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2008/05/31/could-placebo-diet-pills-help-you-lose-weight/ Daily writings about fitness, diet, and health Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:12:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Wil Ford | Lose Weight Naturally http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2008/05/31/could-placebo-diet-pills-help-you-lose-weight/#comment-208999 Wil Ford | Lose Weight Naturally Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:53:30 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/?p=1698#comment-208999 <p>Laura, you raised an interesting issue. Imagine pediatricians prescribing "depressed" children placebo depression pills to make them happy. Imagine heart surgeons prescribing placebo heart pills to elderly patients suffering imagined "heart" ailments. Just imagine.</p> <p>I wonder what would be the repercussions if a doctor were sued for issuing "addictive" placebo pills by his or her obnoxious tweens and fiesty elderly patients.</p> Laura, you raised an interesting issue. Imagine pediatricians prescribing “depressed” children placebo depression pills to make them happy. Imagine heart surgeons prescribing placebo heart pills to elderly patients suffering imagined “heart” ailments. Just imagine.

I wonder what would be the repercussions if a doctor were sued for issuing “addictive” placebo pills by his or her obnoxious tweens and fiesty elderly patients.

]]> By: iportion http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2008/05/31/could-placebo-diet-pills-help-you-lose-weight/#comment-189259 iportion Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:11:04 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/?p=1698#comment-189259 <p>Most likely better than the real pills</p> Most likely better than the real pills

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