I remember in secondary school our psych teacher told us he was going to conduct an experiment. Without going into the full setup, it was a simple experiment wh

I remember in secondary school our psych teacher told us he was going to conduct an experiment. Without going into the full setup, it was a simple experiment where 3 of the 4 participants were "in" on it and had canned responses to see if there was any influence on the behavior of the actual single subject. We were all brought into the classroom one by one so that each person would be deceived, then debriefed, and then would take part in deceiving the next person brought in. The absolute raw feeling of being deceived is quite an intense emotion... Even when you know everyone prior to you was also deceived. So to think a doctor who maintains a confidentiality agreement with their patient, someone who is trusted completely by their patient, might deceive them. Ethical considerations aside: it is just a shitty thing to do.