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Originally Posted by taco.vidal
Theres a lot of doctors that are fat and smoke. Should they not treat patients?
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From an occupational standpoint, it really shouldn't matter. A cigarette smoking doc suffering from chronic pie overdose has no bearing on the patients state of health, nor does it make them incompetent. If their job was to be judgmental I guess it would be relevant, but their expected role is to objectively pass on the facts/diagnosis and recommend treatment based on the evidence.
To undermine a doctors advice because they aren't personally following it is straw man logic.
As an an aside I don't know of single physician who smokes. Interestingly I do know a Neurosurgeon who is an avid motorcycle rider, or as he calls it a "donor-cycle".