{"id":4858,"date":"2011-07-06T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2011-07-06T03:24:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:24:19","slug":"4858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2011\/07\/06\/4858\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously? Refusing to operate on smokers?! Doesn&#8217;t this contravene the basics ethics of medicine\/providing medical care? (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/334\/7583\/20.full\">debate here<\/a> ) I wonder how far this could be taken refusing heart surgery to the (genetic) cardiac patient who&#8217;s deemed not to exercise enough, the bowel patient who does not eat sufficient whole grains, the diabetic who ingests a chocolate mousse and what are the implications of social class and poverty in chronic smokers? Will a similar stand be taken to eradicate the social stress that, for some, may give rise to smoking and dependence on smoking?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jul\/04\/iceland-considers-prescription-only-cigarettes\">&#8220;&#8230;Other countries have gone further. Bhutan has completely outlawed smoking and Finland hopes to follow suit by 2040.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jul\/04\/iceland-considers-prescription-only-cigarettes\">Swedish surgeons now refuse to operate on smokers until they give up, because of the deleterious effect smoking has on the healing process, Gudnason added&#8230;.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously? Refusing to operate on smokers?! Doesn&#8217;t this contravene the basics ethics of medicine\/providing medical care? (see debate here ) I wonder how far this could be taken refusing heart surgery to the (genetic) cardiac patient who&#8217;s deemed not to exercise enough, the bowel patient who does not eat sufficient whole grains, the diabetic who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}