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In a survey of Canadian physicians, one in five acknowledged occasionally prescribing their patients placebos, or using medications well below the active dose.

But don鈥檛 feel cheated or deceived; your doctor was likely acting in your best interest. In fact, you may have benefited from the so-called placebo effect 鈥� in which some patients feel better because they believe they have been given a real therapy.

鈥淪ometimes just thinking that they are getting treatment is enough to elicit some kind of therapeutic response,鈥� said Amir Raz, a professor of psychiatry at 9I制作厂免费 University in Montreal and lead author of a new survey published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, demonstrating that the use of placebos is widespread.