In a growing medical industry, to ensure safe and moral practices for both patients and practitioners, it is important to delineate which treatments ethically deserve a place in today’s medical sphere. One such controversial practice, an old one, is placebo treatments which are inactive look-alike treatments that instead of promoting a direct physical reaction in the body, work on the psychological symptoms that indirectly improve patient conditions (“The power of the placebo effect”). This practice presents important moral dilemmas to doctors as they must decide whether placebo pills are…