Should non-smokers be given priority over smokers when waiting for heart bypass surgury?
Yes
58%
[ 14 ]
Undecided
8%
[ 2 ]
No
33%
[ 8 ]
Total Votes : 24
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Kia
Supporter
Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 6594 Location: Planet Tampaxia,
Posted: 01-16-07 17:00pm
spanky2005
wrote:
i am a smoker but I am
trying to quit without success.
Sometimes I quit for two weeks but then
get back to it.
why?
Don't buy anymore and then you can't smoke
them
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i dont think
smokers should be discriminated against as
far as being given less priority for heart
surgery.
why?
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if the criteria
for heart surgery is going to be peoples
habits and/or other hereditary concerns
then the following could be reasons too:
1) does the person drink a lot of
alchohol
2) does the person have a history of other
problems such as liver, thyroid etc.
3) does heart disease run in a persons
family
4) how about diabetes.
yes, this was acknowleged
but if those factors were identical in the
two people in question but one had always
smoked and the other never is the
hypothetical question.
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if you consider
smoking, then why not consider these other
factors too?
because that would be a
whole different essay - not covered by
this one.
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i think everyone
deserves equal consideration. It should
only depend on how seriously they need the
surgery and how critical the time factor
is if surgery is
postponed.
so if two people were
identical - let's say clones and one
smoked one lived in a clean air
environment - the smoker has wilfully
increased their risk - is that not so?
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Kia
Supporter
Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 6594 Location: Planet Tampaxia,
Posted: 01-16-07 17:04pm
dekkie
wrote:
hi from the uk
well its a tricky question but heres a few
other similar ones...
Should people who are dleiberatly fat
becasue they insist on eating jumk food be
given priority?
Heavy drinkers, should they be given
priority over non drinkers?
Drug addicts...Where should they stand in
the queue at a&e
people who self harm for sexual
gratification...She they get priority over
a kid who has hurt themself falling from a
bike?
Why should people wanting a sex change be
given priority over someone needing a new
hip?
I have no answers...But some opinions
(which I will kepp to myself)
just trying to open it up a little by
playing the devils
advocate
the point here is not to
open it up or play devils advocate.
It is happily accepted that there are
other concerns involved.
But the question revolves around smoking
being the differing factor.
If all other factors were the same should
the non-smoker take priority over the
smoker?
It's not a discussion on how many
different causes and factors of heart
disease there are.
It's not a question of should a fit person
on a healthy balanced diet take priority
over the fat person (and how do you know
the fat person doesn't eat healthy? S/he
may have a thyroid condition).
It is simply based on the single factor
(the only difference in the people in
question) being the smoking.
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blulyneguy
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 334 Location: Idaho,
Preference? Posted: 01-18-07 17:28pm
No preference should be given. Doctors
revive killers and rapists in police
custody just as they would joe blow off
the street. Your opinion may differ, but
a life is a life. I am not opposed to
some "preferential" treatment for some
medical issues (attempted suicides for
example) but on this one, no. Everyone
should have the same chance.
