Any advice on how to deal with biased health care professionals?

[RosaJ]

Nicotine has been known to raise Blood Glucose levels in people with diabetes (temporarily).

I am a type 2 diabetic and it doesn't have that effect on me at all.

 

[aerin34]

As a nurse (currently in school for np) I say switch providers. After taking her a copy of every piece of research/study you can find....

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As another nurse, I'd have directed her to read the forums here! She's obviously misinformed, and then Spreading that misinformation around, doing her patients that don't know any better a great disservice.... This kind of thing has to be stopped in its tracks!

 

[zazzlefrazz]

It's funny how some of these health people say " well the long term effects are not known." what is know however is the long term effects of smoking CIGARETTES that I can pretty much buy anywhere. Who cares what some nurse says. You are doing it for yourself and if you smoked long enough know that you are not coughing stuff up any more, not having coughing fits, and not waking up in the morning feeling like someone stomped on your chest. I personally would have been one of those people that would have never quit smoking as I REALLY enjoyed it. vaping was the best thing I discovered. Personally I love the fact that I get all the same joys with vaping but none of the tar and chemicals of smoke. Could you imagine what one of your drip tips would look like if it was tobacco smoke going through there for a few months.

I have to say I don't really agree with tgreider tho. I am more in the camp of being a little more low key and under the radar about vaping. I love being able to vape in a pub or in a store but I don't produce plumes of vape in those types of places. I usually hold it in a bit longer and very little vape is expelled. I see people walking down the middle of a mall with clouds of vape following them. I personally feel that the more people don't notice that we are doing it the longer we get to live the dream. Freaking people out with plumes of vape in places that smoking is banned is just going to have the anit-vaping laws passed more quickly. I don't what to be a trail blazer educating people of my right to vape. Occasionally someone will notice and ask me about it and I explain it to them and in these situations I find that it is very non-confrontational. The laws will probably eventually come but right now I am enjoying not having to go stand outside to get my nic fix.

 

[EBates]

So I go in for my checkup today and the Nurse Practitioner asks me if I am a smoker, I tell her I have switched to E-Cigs and haven't had a real one since November. She looks me straight in the face and tells me that "There's no difference between an e-cigarette and a real cigarette. You are still a smoker. There are a lot of lies on the internet about them being safe but they aren't. I have a lot of patients that tried to get healthier by switching to them and I have to tell them there is no difference."

How do you respond to that, I wanted to set her straight but how do you do that without coloring the rest of the interactions you have with them from now on.

Obviously she hasn't been doing any real research, she also told myself and my wife that diabetes is caused "by overeating" and the pancreas being worn out from eating to much. We both know this is bull, my wife's been diabetic for years and is 5th generation diabetic.

Any advice on how to address the fact this nurse is obviously putting out totally incorrect information?

And you are paying money for this persons care and advice. Time to Run Don't walk.