When lighting the patient's cigarette is good medicine

vol. 3 issue 6

Still frame of Dr. Victoria Sweet in conversation with Whitney Fishburn

Greetings,

Smoking is awful for one’s health.

Generally speaking, that’s not a controversial statement. I could go down the rabbit hole about how smoking chemical-laden cigarettes on a regular, perhaps addictive, basis is what is actually bad for you, not the occasional inhalation of medicinal smoke into one’s lungs…but that is far from the point of this fascinating conversation with physician, historian, and author, Victoria Sweet, MD.

The actual take-away from my talk with this pioneer of medicine, is that when physicians are free to apply their best clinical judgment to the unique situations their patients present them with, then astounding feats of healing are not only possible, they are probable.