An email to my doctor

[bigdancehawk]

Last December, at my doctor's request, I sent him my personal story about how e-cigarettes had helped me beat a 45+ year smoking habit, along with some recommendations about hardware and e-liquids I'd found to be effective. He thanked me and, after my recent check-up, which showed even better lung function and other positive objective findings, I sent him this:

I hope the information has been helpful to some of your patients who smoke and I'd be most interested in any information you can share about results, positive or negative, to date. I will do anything to help. I will gladly advise people for free. (number redacted). This is a very personal issue for me: my wonderful and brilliant Dad died prematurely of lung cancer and never met his granddaughter. The editor of my law review is now dying of emphysema at the age of 67.

There is a new e-cigarette store near your office at the corner of Roanoke and Westport Road. Your patients might find it more convenient than the one on N-Oak. They have many new products, some of which I found to be even more effective than those I recommended last December. For example, the Aspire nautilus. The technology is constantly improving. However, I can't recommend the e-liquids they're selling because some of the ingredients are sourced from China. There are thousands of liquids which are 100% sourced and blended in the USA from FDA and USP food grade ingredients.


I have done extensive research on safety issues. (by "research," I mean I have read a massive amount of stuff). There is a lot of propaganda about e-cigarettes being circulated, surprisingly, by such organizations as the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, and other seemingly reputable groups who profess to be "public health organizations." Most of their statements on the subject are gross distortions or outright lies. It would take a lot of words to explain what motivates them to lie and why their statements are lies. (I use the term "lie" advisedly, because I can prove that's exactly what they're doing). Of course, the lies are short, make great sound bites and, therefore, are often repeated uncritically in the media and elsewhere, whereas the refutations are much longer, less dramatic and comparatively boring. So, I won't further lengthen this e-mail. But if you run across anything particularly disturbing, please let me know and I can probably prove to your satisfaction that it is false.



Thanks for being such a good physician.

 

[Rat2chat2]

to you bigdancehawk on the check-up and finding a good doctor. That is fantastic news. I still find it amazing everyday, that something so simple finally helped me. Good luck to "us".

 

[bigdancehawk]

Thank you, Rat2Chat2.

My doctor responded, saying he'll print out everything I've written and make it available to his patients. It's a little thing, but it beats doing nothing and it makes me feel useful just trying to make a difference, however small it may be.

My next move will be to get him to write something for dissemination to his colleagues and others. But I don't want to pressure him so I'll wait a while.

EDIT: My avatar is a cockroach flying through the air on a piece if celery. If you can guess what published book that came from you'll win a secret prize. Hint: my wife wrote the book and several others like it.

 

[TyPie]

Last December, at my doctor's request, I sent him my personal story about how e-cigarettes had helped me beat a 45+ year smoking habit, along with some recommendations about hardware and e-liquids I'd found to be effective. He thanked me and, after my recent check-up, which showed even better lung function and other positive objective findings, I sent him this:

I hope the information has been helpful to some of your patients who smoke and I'd be most interested in any information you can share about results, positive or negative, to date. I will do anything to help. I will gladly advise people for free. (number redacted). This is a very personal issue for me: my wonderful and brilliant Dad died prematurely of lung cancer and never met his granddaughter. The editor of my law review is now dying of emphysema at the age of 67.

There is a new e-cigarette store near your office at the corner of Roanoke and Westport Road. Your patients might find it more convenient than the one on N-Oak. They have many new products, some of which I found to be even more effective than those I recommended last December. For example, the Aspire Nautilus. The technology is constantly improving. However, I can't recommend the e-liquids they're selling because some of the ingredients are sourced from China. There are thousands of liquids which are 100% sourced and blended in the USA from FDA and USP food grade ingredients.


I have done extensive research on safety issues. (by "research," I mean I have read a massive amount of stuff). There is a lot of propaganda about e-cigarettes being circulated, surprisingly, by such organizations as the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, and other seemingly reputable groups who profess to be "public health organizations." Most of their statements on the subject are gross distortions or outright lies. It would take a lot of words to explain what motivates them to lie and why their statements are lies. (I use the term "lie" advisedly, because I can prove that's exactly what they're doing). Of course, the lies are short, make great sound bites and, therefore, are often repeated uncritically in the media and elsewhere, whereas the refutations are much longer, less dramatic and comparatively boring. So, I won't further lengthen this e-mail. But if you run across anything particularly disturbing, please let me know and I can probably prove to your satisfaction that it is false.



Thanks for being such a good physician.

This is simply PHENOMENAL! In reading your post, I found myself in tears, as I lost both my Mother & Father prematurely to lung disease. Neither one met their new grandson, my son. Keep up the great work!