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A GP should be...able to give someone a 1p sugar pill or drop of water, just so that person feels better
I thought that there were officially licensed placebos available for GPs to prescribe without having to waste money on charlatans peddling hippy nonsense, but apparently this is not the case, so GPs often end up giving placebos via prescriptions for active drugs having no effect on the condition being treated, or they resort to homoeopathic preparations, thus enriching fraudsters.
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A GP should be allowed to prescribe homeopathic remedies though.
Obviously, no GP worth their license to practice is going to prescribe it for anything that can or should be treated by evidence-based medicine, but being able to give someone a 1p sugar pill or drop of water, just so that person feels better, and buggers off & leaves them alone?
Placebos are useful. And cheap.