> Physicians do not routinely gives patients placebo (except in research), nor would it be ethical to do so routinely in clinical practice. Wikipedia says othe

> Physicians do not routinely gives patients placebo (except in research), nor would it be ethical to do so routinely in clinical practice. Wikipedia says otherwise (and here is its source): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12789709&dopt=Abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db... "The authors sent a questionnaire to 772 randomly selected Danish clinicians and asked them about their use of placebo interventions. Sixty-five percent responded. Among the general practitioners, 86% (95% confidence interval 81-91) reported to have used placebo interventions at least once, and 48% (41-55) to have used placebo interventions more than ten times, within the last year"