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Originally Posted by Luis Antonio What about free will? |
Free will? This person thinks that it is in their best interests to continue smoking and use the health care system to have surgery and the like to repair damage, until eventually he develops a disease that is lethal?
They have the right to choose the treatment they want. The selection is the one that Doctor's put forth. You would not want to choose foot surgery for a broken arm, would you (yes, I know, not a great example) but my point is, if the Doctor thinks that nothing can be gained from this, and that it shows that you can smoke and those in medicine can pick up the slack, than is it really in the best interests of this patient?
This is not if the patient is interested, per se. This is somewhat like Plastic Curgery: It has uses for those burned in fires and the like, but some call it a disgusting use of time and medicine if a person goes in to get her nose to look slightly more curved. It is condoned, however, and is that the best way for human's (in my opinion, as you can see, so far)? Should we condone smoking?
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Well the article says that "Mr Lamerton said that in 75% of patients who take his advice and stop smoking for six months there is an improvement in symptoms and no other treatment is necessary", so it's quite obvious that a lot of people have been told what he's been told, but he's just causing a fuss.
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Exactly, you can see a very good example here. They stop smoking, and they have a good chance of getting better. If they stop and nothing improves, than they can still get surgery and not worry about future problems from the habit.