Dr May and Smoking.

[Abdulmajid]

I am certainly not naive to the world but surely there is not a single GP in the UK under 40 years old who smokes??

I am of course referring to Dr May on Eastenders, even though she is barking.

A GP who smokes will be like a manager of Kwik Fit driving around on bald tyres or an Electrician holding a live wire in his teeth.

Can anybody proov me wrong insofar as knowing a GP who smokes?

[stonekicker]

i'm a nurse and i smoke. just because people are aware of the health implications of smoking does not mean they are sensible enough not to! i wish i'd never started, but that's a whole different story...

[Abdulmajid]

Stonekicker have you ever treated anybody with lung or throat cancer or emphasema (sp?)

If so you still choose to continue??

That is not a dig, but if you had I find it very odd.

[Velvetee]

maybe Dr May smokes because she's mad and it helps to calm her mad nerves. I don't think she smoked before she became mad.

[Ethel]

From the British Medical Journal:

http://student.bmj.com/issues/03/08/letters/30 0a.php


And this is the charity that helps drug abusing, alcoholic, smoking doctors

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/26739599/

[dimwithwit]

I agree with the nurse. Just because you know it's not good for you, doesn't stop you from doing it. How many of you drink? how many of you drink alcohol more than once a week. This is the next target. The same marketing of anit smoking over the last twenty years is being speeded up for the aducation of alcohol; advising you at first of the risk, progressing to you're an out cast if you do.
Dr May has been hurt deeply by the man she loved, by false promises and the finally her hopes dashed. There is extreme unfairness of the situation she now finds herself in. She is looking for revenge to try to heel her grief. and we all know that revenge might be sweet, but it solves nothing. Well unless you can tell me differently.
The smoking is her crutch.

[ChuckFickens]

regardless of how much a person may know of the implications of smoking it's natural human behavior to have the opinion of "it will never happen to me" so some doctors smoke, some police officers drink and drive and I bet some firemen don't have smoke alarms.

[stonekicker]

abdul - yes i have treated people for copd, lung cancer, emphysema in my time and as a psych nurse, most of my patients smoke and spend their lives coughing their guts up. smoking is an addiction, and as any other, people have to be really motivated to stop and want to do it for the right reasons otherwise it never happens. i only smoke a few and am considering quitting (again - i have done it before!) and will get to it in my own jolly good time. also - i'd like to point out that i am not dumb, here - i did an a level project on smoking, have seen it thoughout my training and practice and even did my dissertation on the smoking ban in psychiatric units - so i really know my stuff here. giving up is just not that easy and unless you smoke (or have given up) you won't know just how hard it is.

[Dr-Legend]

Isnt eastenders just a tv programme with no actual basis in fact?
Or am i misssing something ?





" NICE TO SEE YOU , TO SEE YOU NICEEEE "

[Lakitu]

My uncle is a GP, he's over 40 now but he's been a smoker for as long I've known him.....around 20 years.

[donn1901]

hey your totally wrong abdul. nurses see many things and treat many case but let me tell you smoking is down to preference and if we choose to smoke its a choice we live with and take, the outcome later in life yeah maybe we did it ourselves. overweight ppl choose to eat and continue to get bigger belive me they will suffer but it down to choice addiction maybe but you choose in life and yea i no a gp who came to the pub every thurs evening with a cigar for years it choice!!"!

[stonekicker]

leg - you are right, just answered the question as it was interesting and got my goat a little

[Ice.Maiden]

I've heard that there's more alcoholism within the medical profession than in any other. Medics smoke as well - and some take drugs. All these "vices" are addictions, and not easy to break, but if they want to carry on with these unpleasant habits, it's up to them

[stonekicker]

the medical profession is a reflection of wider society - with all its problems...increased drug use because of access and high levels of stress. being responsible for other people's health is hard work!