Yearly Physical

[BlackCat5775]

Kinda bummed. I had my annual physical yesterday and was so happy to tell my doctor that I had quit analogs 2 months and was now vaping! I've smoked since I was 18, I'm now 43. For the last 10 years or so I was smoking about a pack and a half a day.
Her response? She shook her head and said she thought vaping was WORSE than smoking.

 

[ckquatt]

Did you try to offer her sites and studies for her to read to see if she would change her outlook on vaping?


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[dbrandt01]

Sounds like the typical doctor that is to lazy to do her own research on a topic before passing judgement. I'd print everything off with information and tell her to do some much needed studying since she is clueless.

 

[WillyZee]

I would find another doctor ... if she is so ill informed about vaping vs smoking ... what else is she missing that could help her patients?

 

[CaveCanem]

I'm sorry you were disappointed BlackCat. My Doctor was really pleased, with the caveat that he thought vaping was better than smoking, but he was sure that vaping was not without some health risk. I wish/hope more health care professionals would be more open-minded and see vaping as a viable, and healthier form of smoking cessation.

 

[gandymarsh]

Doctors are people too and suseptable to misinformation just like everyone else.

 

[suprtrkr]

You need a new doctor, I'm thinking. Nobody actually knows about the long term effects of vaping, but the idea it could be worse than smoking staggers the imagination.

 

[jdrewry]

To the OP:
How did the physical go? Was your doctor pleased with the results BEFORE you said you were vaping now?

 

[Bunnykiller]

the Dr. I go to was always on my .... to quit smoking... he knew what my chest sounded like when I was smoking ( hence the reason and persistance to make me stop)... anyway I started vaping and had another mini physical and he was astounded at the clarity of my lungs... no more wheezing, popping, crackle ... he was so impressed at the transformation he now advocates vaping to his smoking patients... I go to a kewl Dr.

 

[billgharley]

After 2 years analog free, my doc says my lungs sound great (and they didn't used to).

 

[Frenchfry1942]

Sadly, I said that I was done with vaping and don't smoke. I think he annotated it. I just don't smoke anymore and I leave it there. My life insurance, cost of benefits monthly don't need to go up.

 

[djsvapour]

Doctors are people too and susceptible to misinformation just like everyone else.

So true. They also know how bad smoking is... which kind of begs the question... ?

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

She shook her head and said she thought vaping was WORSE than smoking.

Did you ask why she thought that or ask where she got her information from?

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

So true. They also know how bad smoking is... which kind of begs the question... ?

And so did/do we, yet we still smoke(d)

 

[nmackan]

Dont fight with her. She may be a doctor but she is ignorant at all. I had one doctor (of wife's) told me same thing. I asked her do you recommend I would smoke instead of vaping? She shrugged its your choice she told. What makes vaping worst I asked. She told me even if you dont smoke you have the same attitudes with smoking you can never leave. I told her this is just the point what makes vaping win over smoking. She told it is smoking whatever you call it. (If she was a real doctor she would ask me breath tests MR etc to see what 40 plus years smoking did my lungs and what happened in 2 years after vaping)
You can tell the one who doesnt know about something but would like to learn. But you cant do anything about ignorants. For they know everything anyway.

 

[gandymarsh]

Most likely, she is a GP (General Practitioner). They are not specialists in any one discipline.

With all the FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) being spread around, it's very possible that she read one or two slanted articles that stuck with her.

 

[markfm]

My gp was happy when I told her I had stopped smoking, but the proof was that I stayed stopped, and she could see the fortunately minimal impacts I was starting to show go away over time.

She updated my status formally to non smoker after a year, and I did provide her some medical info charts on vaping. The staff at the office I go to are uniformly happy to see patients switch.

 

[Bootiewootsy]

My husband has lung and bladder cancer.. At present he is getting the small cell cancer treated and both doctors, chemo and radiation are so pleased he smokes an ecig.. My doctor was also pleased and said he wished they had been around for his father.. Seems like your Dr. need some reading on the issue.

 

[All Your Base...]

I don't trust any doctor and view all medical personnel with extreme scepticism. Period. Why? because I live in Amerika.

 

[SpookyWooky]

Doctors are a funny lot , the suspicious part of my mind sometimes wonders if some are taking money under the table from companies like nicorette to get poor people addicted to their nasty expensive products

I think my GP was pretty cool about it when I mentioned, had pretty much the same opinion I had come away with from googling; we don't know the long term effects yet, but anything is better than smoking .