Most family doctors have given a placebo to at least one of their patients, survey findings suggest. In a poll, 97% of 783 GPs admitted that they had recommended a sugar pill or a treatment with no established efficacy for the ailment their patient came in with.
Judges reject Paul Lamb's request for help from doctors to die but allow another man to get help to travel to Swiss clinic. The court of appeal has rejected a request by a paralysed man that doctors should be allowed to help him die. But the judges did allow another appeal by a man suffering from locked-in syndrome to seek medical help if he travels to a suicide clinic in Switzerland.