I would rather live a shorter life and enjoy it the way I want to live it than extend that life a few more years in a miserable existence of denial of simple pleasures.
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Posted on 08/05/2002 5:09:05 AM PDT by SheLion
I know I said I wouldn't post to you anymore, but the thought just dawned on me..........IF your a Doktor, and Doctor's being so busy and this is Monday , why the hell aren't you at the hospital working? You mean to tell me that Doctor's have OFF on MONDAY? I don't THINK so!
IMPOSTER
Have you always been wrong about everything? I was born in Georgia and live in New York.
Can I watch.
I would rather live a shorter life and enjoy it the way I want to live it than extend that life a few more years in a miserable existence of denial of simple pleasures.
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Care to explain.??
HE: Do you smoke after sex?
SHE: I dunno, I never looked.
OK, it's got whiskers, but this threads going no place.
She never looked, but you did?
:o)
Great Dane, I registered at FR well over a year ago, and you know that we get a lot of anti smokers on our threads, but I have NEVER seen a poster like THIS. This guy just won't QUIT! He says he is on "vacation." May the good Lord have mercy on us and make him go back to work SOON!!!!!!!
I'm on holiday if it's so important to you...
Indeed, this is a common phrase in Georgia and New York.
Everyone goes "on holiday," not "vacation."
He might be a doctor, but he's a fraud none the less.
You don't know what you're missin'. (I'm not THAT lonesome.)
Please!!!!!!! Just shoot me NOW so I don't have to put up with anymore of this demons POST!!!!!!!!!
Tell me, Doc, is it only smokers who come to you with cancer? Are they the only ones in respect of whom you have to tell loved ones there is nothing you can do?
Have you ever smoked? Or asked a (honest) smoker what they get out of smoking? I can't speak for all smokers, but I can tell you that I get enormous pleasure out of a smoke. And, I get that pleasure numerous times, every day of my life. Not simply in a couple of extra arthritic, bladder-challenged ones at the end.
Smokers aren't the only ones in society who engage in risky behaviour which they consider enjoyable and others consider fraught (eg. skydiving, mountain-climbing, etc.), but they're the only ones singled out for special ridicule, segregation and taxation.
So, as a doctor, have you ever asked why people smoke? Or do you just think they do it because they're addicted and for no other reason? Come on, if it's that hard to give up, why are there as many ex-smokers as there are smokers? Sure it's hard to give up, but is it because it's addictive like heroin? Or because it's addictive like sex? When I do give it up (and I do, from time to time) I'm not a trembling pile of gelatin writhing about on the floor. I'm more like a person in mourning for a lost friend. So, this is the start of your education as to why people smoke. If you are really the concerned professional you intimate to be in your post, you should start to learn a little about your patients, not just say, "There goes another smoker - hopeless case, sad really." I'll bet you have many patients who, for one reason or another are sad (mentally or physically) regardless of whether or not they smoke. Do you have any patients who you can say, "There goes another smoker - he/she seems happy." One shoe has never fit all the customers. You should know better than to make broad-brush generalisations that all smoking is bad for all people in all cases. That shows an unsophisticated, unsympathetic view of the world.
Are there other risky behaviours engaged in by your patients which you feel compelled to comment on publicly? (eg. said sky-diving or mountain-climbing?) Or is smoking a particular issue for you?
Finally, would you dispute that 1 in 3 non-smokers will contract cancer and 1 in 4 of them will die in "horrific pain"? If not, would you dispute that by giving up smoking, I'm avoiding a 1 in 33 chance of getting lung cancer, but I'm still going to have a 1 in 3 risk of getting some other form of cancer? My point? Smoking is risky, life is much riskier and life, unlike smoking, is 100% fatal. You call that smug, I call it a more dispassionate assessment of the situation than your paternalistic "you'll soon be dead" attitude.
Next time you get a committed smoker into your surgery, you might do well to ask them why they like to smoke so much and try and understand them, rather than simply saying, there goes another smoker - poor addicted fool. If only they'd been like old Mrs Smith - she got cancer too, died terribly at 85. Didn't drink, smoke, or stay out late. Dashed unlucky, that!
Oh come on, SheLion.
Don't you know Dr. Ev - er, Luv - is just here to help us?
I think we're fortunate to have an over-100-IQ actual doctor willing to address us in the smallest words his gargantuan intellect will allow in order to save us.
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