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Smoking - I'm Livid !
10/26/2006 | stylin19a

Posted on 10/26/2006 11:37:16 AM PDT by stylin19a

I am 2 hours post-op surgery.

The last words I heard before going under anesthesia were: "Quit Smoking"..from the anestheseologist.

The first words I heard coming out of the anesthesia, again by the anestheseologist, were "QUIT SMOKING".

Please...no pros\cons of smoking. Perhaps I'm too close to the surgery but, smoking now dries out my mouth, taste absolutely rotten and gives me a headache. I now have very little desire to smoke.

Please, no comments about no desire.

I don't think what the anestheseologist did is right. It's not his call to get me to quit smoking, it's mine...if and when I'm ready.

Is what he did legal ?


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1 posted on 10/26/2006 11:37:16 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: stylin19a

Yes, it's legal. See US Constitution, 1st Amendment.


2 posted on 10/26/2006 11:39:41 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: stylin19a

He may have saved you from spending your later years in a plastic tent with a hole in your throat. Is that legal?


3 posted on 10/26/2006 11:39:59 AM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: stylin19a

What kind a surgery did you have?


4 posted on 10/26/2006 11:40:02 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: stylin19a

What is it you think the anesthesiologist did to you? Hypnosis? Aversion therapy? It is possible that the anesthesia has an effect or reaction with cigarette smoke that lingers for awhile and that is causing your reactions.


5 posted on 10/26/2006 11:40:12 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: stylin19a

Of course it's legal. Doctors are supposed to give good advice. It's not his fault that you don't want to take it.


6 posted on 10/26/2006 11:40:20 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: stylin19a

It's called medical advice. Good grief.


7 posted on 10/26/2006 11:43:44 AM PDT by alnick
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To: stylin19a
The smoking Nazi's are extremely irritating.

One day, there will be a situation where someone get's hurt. I have no doubt....

8 posted on 10/26/2006 11:44:05 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Turnout is critical! I have voted! How about you?)
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He said what he did because there are more problems with increased secretions and spasms of the airways because of smoking....which complicates going under anesthesia..not to mention that whole lung cancer thing.

MM


9 posted on 10/26/2006 11:46:34 AM PDT by motormouth (Faith is a passionate intuition.)
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To: stylin19a

if he said "quit smoking and pray to Jesus"


now you got a lawsuit!!!!!


11 posted on 10/26/2006 11:49:58 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
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To: stylin19a
Sounds like a mis-application of ethics unless you are you paying him to administer both anesthesia and subliminal suggestions. Tack a note on the billing statement and say you are deducting fifty percent of the bill for receiving services you didn't ask for.
12 posted on 10/26/2006 11:54:23 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: stylin19a

It's legal. It doesn't take a genius to know that smoking is bad. It's no less legal for him to say it than your neighbor or your brother.


13 posted on 10/26/2006 11:56:02 AM PDT by RockinRight (Maintaining a Republican majority is MORE IMPORTANT than your temper tantrum.)
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To: stylin19a

Give yourself a day or two - you are probably too close to the surgery. You probably also have some effects of any post-op meds going. Last time I had surgery, I figured the most I could be trusted to do was read FR - didn't think I should post while "under the influence".


14 posted on 10/26/2006 11:56:12 AM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality)
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To: motormouth
He said what he did because there are more problems with increased secretions and spasms of the airways because of smoking....which complicates going under anesthesia..not to mention that whole lung cancer thing.

Then he should restrict his practice to those he approves of, if he can...... Not cajole and intimidate those he does not. He has no right to do that.

The patient, on the other hand, has no choice in the matter of who does his anesthesia and is at the mercy of his doctors and the hospital once he agrees to the operation, and often has no say in it at all.

There could be a good solid case made against involuntary psycho therapy made here.

15 posted on 10/26/2006 11:56:33 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Turnout is critical! I have voted! How about you?)
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To: traditional1
If you were a faggot, going into surgery

whats worse is becoming gay after surgery.

why were my pants around my ankles ????

16 posted on 10/26/2006 11:57:48 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
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To: traditional1

There's a big difference.

It's no different for an anesthesiologist to suggest quitting smoking than your mother, or father, or spouse saying it.


17 posted on 10/26/2006 11:57:51 AM PDT by RockinRight (Maintaining a Republican majority is MORE IMPORTANT than your temper tantrum.)
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To: stylin19a

What exactly is it about that situation that makes you so mad?


18 posted on 10/26/2006 11:58:04 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: stylin19a

I went to the doc in the Navy once for an ear infection and he asked me if I smoked. I said yes. He grumbled something to the effect of, "I don't know why we have to waste our time on you people", like I was already dead.


19 posted on 10/26/2006 11:59:03 AM PDT by L98Fiero (Evil is an exact science)
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To: stylin19a

LOLOL,, this is a joke, right?


20 posted on 10/26/2006 11:59:14 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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