Seeing I plan to tell various Doctors about this, when I consult them, I created a TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/ydjt7rk and I thought that other people might want to do the same, feel free to use the TinyURL Actually, once I had analysed the relevant New Zealand Laws, which I do by writing documents such as this one, I understand that placebos can not be legally used in NZ, except for example, by researchers and drug companies testing their drugs, BUT only after official approval, for example, the Wellington School of Medicine has a ethics committee which needs to approve each use of placebos. I wonder why the NZ Authorities have not spoken out after the recent news that NZ medical practitioners commonly use placebos in treating their patients, one being mild doses of antibiotics. This could lead to medical misadventure, example, an elderly lady arrives at ED in a bad way, and her family tells the doctor that their mother has been prescribed by her GP (MD) a certain antibiotic, but only their mother knows why. The ED doctors' delay treatment, until they work out what the antibiotic is for, as they don’t want to harm her. By the time they find out the antibiotic is just being used as a placebo by the lady’s general practitioner, and they had been looking for a non existent antibiotic related problem, they go back, and start again, and by then, when they find the real problem, it is too late to start treatment and the elderly lady dies. I wonder what the NZ Medical Council (NZMC) says about the use of placebos? I believe the use of placebos needs to be formalized, maybe along the lines of my document. And a new medical speciality created by the NZMC for doctors making use of placebos, I suggest calling them the traditional name “Witch Doctors”