The Alfred Hospital experience

[smoko]

The sugeon stood over me, anger in his eyes, "not sure if should bother doing this, your a smoker" he said, and in my fury, I told him where to go and got up to leave. Not a good thing to do, he had a wire in my heart, and the nurses pulled me back down.
I had just finished a shift of 10 hours in said hospital, then, as I did every day, spent an hour working out in the hospital gym. This man thought he was god, and it was my first insight into not only discrimination, but also the depth of hatred against smokers. It is sad that such a technically tallented surgeon, should be so sucked in by ideology and lies. Public hospital patients should all be treated equal, yet smokers, drinkers and the obese are seen as something less than human, and at times, treated as such.

The Alfred Hospital does some amazing work, and the staff are generally brilliant, just don't tell anybody you smoke or drink.

[deb]

My ex husband was told by his surgeon that if he required another stent implanted for heart surgery and he hadnt given up smoking, he would be refused the surgery.

And while in hospital last year, I was outside having a smoke where the ambulances pull up. The ambo abused me for smoking while rushing in a victim of a drug overdose. Go figure.

[make_em_$100_pkt]

Actually, that's the very point of it all (the scam). They only know that you smoke if you TELL them. If it really was the cause of all human health problems they claim it to be, they would be able to tell that you smoke. It's interesting that even blood analysis and every other test they can do all have no way of revealing that an individual is a smoker, yet there are many very simple tests including urinalysis and even saliva testing that can identify the type and confirm the recent use of illegal drugs such as cannibis, cocaine, ecstasty etc... And we all know how simple it is to detect alcohol in a person's blood...