Re: Placebo pills for kids | | I happen to be within this school of thought. some doctors worry that giving children “medicine” for every ache and pain teaches that every ailment has a cure in a bottle. “Kids could grow up thinking that the only way to get better is by taking a pill,” Dr. Brody said. If they do that, he added, they will not learn that a minor complaint like a scraped knee or a cold can improve on its own.... |