frustration

When did people stop caring about their health? When did people start relying on doctors to "fix them". What is this notion? Your health is not your own- it is your doctors job to fix you, and you will sit back and watch or ever worse continue to do the actions that probably got you in your situation in the first place?

smoking, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, inactivity, high salt diets, high fat diets, high cholesterol....

PLEASE!!! I am on my knees pleading. I am begging you.

DO SOMETHING! Stop this harmful hurtful behavior!! Stop looking for a cure outside of yourself. YOU are the cure. You need to take action. Take it now. Please.... BE responsible for your actions, be responsible for your own health. No more excuses please, I am tired of all the excuses. Be the first person to go to when something is not right and ask yourself, am I eating healthy, am I sleeping okay, is my stress okay? do I get enough exercise? do I smoke? do I drink too much? The answers are there. I promise.

Today I saw a man in clinic, still smoking 1 pack a day on 4 L of home oxygen, with horrible COPD, decompensated heart failure, 2 bypass surgeries, more stents, more disease, more stents.... still smoking.... stroke.... still smoking.... he could no long sleep lying down. Slept in a chair, couldn't breathe lying down. Constant chest pain, chest pain when he smokes.

What can I do for you? what can you do for yourself. please stop smoking. please.
oh you would rather smoke.... and not take your medicine?
and die a horrible death of suffocation when fluid fills your lungs.

sure I can throw more medicines on the long list you already take.
ok lets try that again.
more meds with more side effect, and more meds for those side effects.