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Monday, June 24, 2002 |
Workbench: "...who both presume that most doctors are clean-living, non-smoking teetotalers. " I make no such assumption. I just find it incredulous that doctors would literally at one second tell a patient that smoking will kill them and at the next moment light up as if their years of education on the subject meant nothing. I mean, think about it, how much confidence would you have in an IT manager who at one moment tells you not to open emails with attachments and at the next moment, opens an email and infects the network with a worm. It's the same thing -- there are some folks who should know better and need to act accordingly. It's all about integrity.
Trust me, I've known my fair share of doctors and the vast majority of 'em have not been clean-living, non-smoking teetotalers.
11:12:38 AM 
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CNN.com: "If you went to a baseball game tonight, and looked around, you would see about 25,000 other fans. If you were living in Israel, one of you would likely be killed in a terrorist attack in the next six months. One of every 26,392 Israelis has been killed in a terrorist attack since January. Per capita, that is more than three times the number of people killed in the attacks on September 11. For Israelis, living with terror has become a part of daily life."
9:16:25 AM
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Scripting News: "Just guessing that most doctors never smoked, or if they did they didn't do it for very long, so don't really understand, at a personal level, how hard this drug is to say goodbye to. It just doesn't want to let up. The doctors say "You have to just quit." I worked for a doctor a few years back on a medical billing app. One day when I was outside taking a break I overhead a doctor talking to a patient telling him that he had to quit smoking or his lungs were going to get worse and that his heart condition would kill him. The man looked pretty shaken up and left ... got in his car and drove away. Then the most incredible thing happened. The doctor, after he was sure the patient was gone out of sight (he actually stood there and watched him leave for a minute), pulled out a cigarette and lit up, enjoying a few drags before he went back to work.
8:28:04 AM
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Scripting News: "About doctors and cigarettes. Just guessing that most doctors never smoked, or if they did they didn't do it for very long, so don't really understand, at a personal level, how hard this drug is to say goodbye to. It just doesn't want to let up. The doctors say "You have to just quit." But what are the best strategies. Should you use the patch if you've already got a week of cold turkey under your belt. Interested in what other people think. " Personally, I've never had a problem with this type of stuff. I've never smoked, I've never had any alcohol, never really been addicted to anything really. But many folks in my family have. My dad used to go through at least one or two packs a day. Then, one day, he ran out of cigarettes and decided he wasn't going to the store to buy any more (even though the store was right next door to his work, less than 50 feet away). It took us more than a month to notice he had quit smoking (he never told us). My mom went to empty out his ashtray and noticed it was already empty. He hasn't had a cigarette since and says once he decided not to go buy anymore, he never even had the craving. That's after smoking since he was 12 years old or so. Same basic story with my grandmother. She had smoked for many many years and was out mowing her lawn and couldn't catch her breath after only a few minutes. She decided it was time to quit smoking so she did. Threw her cigarettes away and never had a problem since. Then again, my family is filled with a long line of extremely hard headed and stubborn folk. Good luck Dave, you'll get through it, just make up your mind to stick to it and don't give in.
8:21:08 AM
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