Why Do You Think Doctors Smoke?

take it from a nurse,me, med school and school of nursing is a stressful environment for us. Set for example, your introduced with a patient today , you interview and gather all necessary data and you collate all of these data to be submitted tomorrow,much worse at the end of the day, and Im not taking about ordinary data. These data includes health history, present and past illnesses, health history of the family of the patient, then you check the patient from head to toe, noting every single abnormalities, then you associate each signs and symptoms with what disease the patient may have. after identifying the disease or diseases and I am not talking one or two diseases! , we plan the course of treatment that may take for how many days or weeks, the course of treatment, well you can imagine it from medicines to examinations, diets, activities, the do's and dont's and such you patients may hear from doctor and nurse's... and when the day end, we are not only handling ONE patient, it is always more than THREE! much worst for Public health it will never go down to 30 patients... and so, smoking, much less drinking and food indulgence is the only stress reliever for us :)

I think these are the ones who got into medicine just for the money. They didn't want to help anyone be healthier they just saw dollar signs. They don't even care about themselves. You are depriving your brain of oxygen when you smoke. Not a good asset for a doctor. I had a doctor who would come in all tan smelling of smoke. She was a horrible condescending doctor who nearly killed me by not caring to do any tests or send me to a specialist and completely misdiagnosed me. Doesn't surprise me she also smoked and tanned and was fat on top of it.

Just because someone knows something is bad, doesn't keep them from doing it. I guess it's just a human thing. Think about it, seeing and dealing with sick people, some dying, some without insurance or ability to access health care. It could just be the reaction to stress. Either way, I am just glad to have only smoked a few years before realizing what I was doing to myself,

Well, they are regular people like us, so they might have started smoking before going to medicine school. Or it just takes the stress away, because medicine is a stressful school and profession! I am also a smoker and I also say to people that they shouldn't smoke but it's hard to quit. I've managed to quit for 3 years but now I am smoking again! We all know the consequences but it's not easy to quit smoking if you aren't fully determined.

Well, I don't usually see doctors or nurse smoking. But I believe the reason they smoke is quite similar with the common smoker. It can be to look good in front of others, or to socialize with people that smoke, or to reduce their stress and problems. Of course, none of these reasons sounds right to me as the health risk smoking has would just beat them all. Doctor of all people should not smoke especially in front of others as people would misunderstood and misleaded.

yeah actually it is dependent what kind of smoke he smoking, some smoke less bad to our health, if he really use the original smoke that you mean really bad to our health and even the smoke can distrub our breathing, thats mean he really don't care to his patient, i think he working just get money, she even don't care her patient.

Doctors are human beings too and they can succumb to temptations like everyone else. Of course if one sees a doctor smoking one may be less inclined to consult him or her. So I think most doctors will have their puffs discreetly. However I think there are less and less 'smoking' doctors nowadays.