Do Doctor's smoke?

redshiloh · Aug 31, 2004

Cigar and pipe smokers don't inhale? Is that true?

lalaxton · Aug 31, 2004

I know a Pulmonologist who smokes!! Addiction is tough to kick! He is the only lung specialist I know who will accept patients who still smoke.

allnurses Guide · Aug 31, 2004

OUCH your huge letter hurts my eyes rofl....

I forgot my glasses so it help me. :rolleyes:

steph

SmilingBluEyes · Aug 31, 2004

Cigar and pipe smokers don't inhale? Is that true?

true, but they court mouth, tongue and throat cancers in "not inhaling". So it's no healthier to use these types of tobacco than smoking is. And dip or chew is just as bad. I remember a really funny poem from my childhood dentist's office walls

Tobacco is that filthy weed--

That from the Devil doth proceed.

It's infiltrates your hair and clothes---

And makes a chimney out of your nose.

Indeed.

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Sep 1, 2004

Our world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon smokes like a chimney. We are a non-smoking facility so it's always a little bit of a hoot so see him huddled into his coat on the coldest of windy winter days, standing outside the coffee shop across the street from the hospital with all the other addicted souls. We have a policy regarding cologne and perfumed skin products that he violates every day... he bathes in Polo so that it masks the stench of smoke. We can always smell him coming!

Headhurt, ADN · Sep 1, 2004

I went to one particular hospital my grandfather was at, and there was a herd of people out front smoking...one of which being my aunt. A doctor, I'm guessing pulmonologist, came out the front doors and thanked everyone for smoking because it gave him job security. I don't know if someone complained (I'm sure someone did), but I thought it was pretty funny at the time. Since then, the hospital has moved their smoking area to the back of the hospital where people are not greeted by a cloud of smoke as they enter the building. I remember one lady having an asthma attack as she entered the hospital to visit her mother...and she didn't even smoke!

susanna · Sep 1, 2004

The doctors I work with smoke A LOT. The one I spend alot of time with smokes like a chimney when he is in his private office, not seeing patients.

But here's what I don't get: They're in close proximity to their patients all day: inspecting them, touching them, and talking to them while they are close by to them. I can smell the heavy stench whenever I'm near them and it bothers me a lot. But I've never heard a patient comment yet. I wonder why they haven't lost a significant amount of patients because of this?(Not that I want my doctors to lose their patients but I still wonder)

I mean, I don't think I've had a PCP who smokes. They always seem pretty sterile. Or, maybe I've had a PCP who smokes and I've never noticed because I mainly go to the doctor for respiratory viruses that clog up my nose??? Or, maybe a doctor's office already has so many smells that are foreign to patients that they don't notice??? I don't know how the heck the patients don't notice or never say a word.