Please smoke yourselves to early deaths
Doctors probably shouldn’t joke about this kind of stuff when speaking before large audiences:
“It is clear that medical costs will increase if non-smoking spreads,” the doctor said last week, according to Ida Hospital in Kawasaki City. “It’s better that people smoke a lot and die early.”
The man, whose name has been withheld, made the comment at a gathering of doctors, the hospital said.
“The hospital president has reprimanded him severely,” said Tetsuya Yamamoto, a public relations official of the hospital.
“He said it was a careless remark and sincerely regrets it,” the official said, adding that he was being sarcastic as the doctor is a smoker himself.
[hat tip to Clay]
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