Re:Antibiotics?!? (Score 2, Informative)

Placebos and Antibiotics are not the same thing. You say, " Tell your patients that a spoonfull of sugar will cure them in aproximately 1 week if you absolutely need to give them something." - that is essentially what a placebo is! There are tons of articles out there about how patients are becoming more resistant to medical advice because they are constantly on the internet looking for a cure and they come to their doctors with things that won't work but refuse to listen to the doctor, who spent years in medical school, because they feel they learned everything by doing some research on the internet for a little bit. I can understand why some doctors feel they have no choice but to prescribe a placebo. This article also highlights the power of the mind in healing oneself, albeit in a roundabout way. If a patient feels they have gotten a new drug, they can heal themself just by thinking they are getting better from the new "drug". Anyway, I went off on a tangent a bit, but I just think you should have read the article more closely. Placebos are not antibiotics.